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Sandbox vs themepark

Raph Koster

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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Matt Marshall went solo to escape corporate culture and scored a hit with Dystopika

PreMortem.Games

It’s a no-goals, no-management sandbox that allows players to build dark cities that would make Deckard proud to hunt replicants in. In many ways it felt logical to get back to being hands on in creating but I also enjoyed that clarity of what I wanted to build without the usual design by committee processes that I had been through.

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Oscar Salandin, developer of BOTSU Ridicuous Robots: “Solo dev can be lonely” 

PreMortem.Games

I’m not very comfortable with self-promotion, and don’t easily find motivation for things that aren’t contributing directly to the game build.” “I’m I’m lucky to have friends who are always happy to try out new game builds and give honest feedback for where to improve, as well as saying positive things that keep the motivation up.

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Web3 gaming leaders face challenges of a ‘difficult year’

Game Daily

The speakers at ‘Game On, Web3: New Use Cases and The Revolution in Gaming Success Metrics’ were Nicolas Pouard (Head of Blockchain Initiatives, Ubisoft Strategic Innovation Lab) , Brian O’hagan (Growth Lead, Sorare), Sebastien Borget (Co-Founder & COO, The Sandbox), Sami Chlagou (Founder & CEO, Cross the Ages).

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The Sandbox’s U.S. CEO shares the biggest lessons he’s learned so far

Game Daily

The Sandbox is a creative metaverse, in a similar vein to Roblox. GameDaily spoke to The Sandbox’s U.S. We’re building a platform. We are not the owner of the content they create. GameDaily: The Sandbox has said that it wants to disrupt existing game makers like Minecraft and Roblox?

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Snowman Dev Update (2.2: 19 June 2022)

Digital Ephemera

For the last two weeks, none of the testing builds included Underscore.js. This has meant, in trying not to break too much from past examples, I have had to re-include it in Snowman builds. Code sandboxes and pseudo-global properties. have fully embraced using the same sandbox concept EJS does. In Snowman 2.2,

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

Sandbox style simulations. The goal for Godot is to provide a great set of building blocks that can be used and combined to create more specialized game functions and tools. Godot, on the other hand, serves as an excellent platform to build upon, as it solves the vast majority of problems already. So, are we not even close?

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