Raph Koster

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

I just watched a couple of videos about sandbox vs themepark games (in particular one by NerdSlayer and another by Josh “Strife” Hayes )… One thing that struck me about the ways players often talk about this (because at this point the history is so old) is that people think of sandbox as the older version of MMOs, and themeparks as newer.

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Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 15, 2023

Several other areas got improvements, like the editor (which has been vastly reworked), UI system, multiplayer, navigation, audio, animation, etc. Animation streaming : Modern games have long cinematics, which require a lot of animation data. Loading those animations require a lot of memory and loading them takes a lot of time.

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Rampant Games

JULY 13, 2022

We have a few VR games now inspired by Japanese anime styles, including an MMORPG. The latter began as an RPG, I understand, but evolved into being more of a sandbox fighting simulator. Role-playing games in VR are unfortunately less common than I would have expected, but not rare. We have choices. The three Fs.

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Real Programming

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The online sandbox gaming platform is popular because it allows kids to build, create, mine, and use their creative juices in many exciting ways. The Unity engine allows developers to create games and simulations across platforms, from computers and consoles to mobile devices. That fact alone motivates kids to learn Java.

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Radiator Blog

JULY 6, 2021

all drawings by Eleanor Davis "We Dwell in Possibility" (WeDIP) is a new queer gardening simulation game about planting bodies and ideas, and watching them grow into a kinetic landscape. It's a zoomed out perspective, it's not immersive, it's a simulation. Naked simulated AI people ("peeps") arrive and flow across the terrain.

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PreMortem.Games

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The genre has naturally grown into a major market segment, encompassing everything from farming simulators like Stardew Valley to the meditative organizing of Unpacking , the gentle island life of Animal Crossing, the castle and farm building games, and the creative sandbox freedom of Minecraft.

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