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Puzzmo co-creator Zach Gage on building newspaper games that can last forever

Game Developer

"Every game I design is meant to be a sandbox. At the lowest level, someone coming in should just feel comfortable playing around."

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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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Two engineers build the physics-driven engineering parody The Enjenir

PreMortem.Games

The Enjenir is a physics-driven sandbox game with a clumsy medieval engineer that fumbles his way from one construction project to the next. With the game’s 100% physics-based building system, players can solve each mission in infinite ways. From the building mechanics, all the way to the third person character movements.

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Mythical’s Web3 NFT racer goes live

Game Daily

Sandbox moves In other Web3 gaming news, Animoca Brands’ The Sandbox, announced a partnership with Agora to provide voice, video, and chat services to the metaverse-creative game. “We’re excited to see how The Sandbox continues to innovate with Agora’s products to build deeper connections within communities. .”

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Guest post - “Small Team, Big Project”: Building Moonwards

Mircosoft Game Dev

Moonwards is an in-development open source sandbox MMO built with Godot. In this guest post, some members of the Moonwards team give us insights into how they approach building such a complex project with Godot. We are the team behind Moonwards , a sandbox MMO being built in Godot. For a networked sandbox? But that’s OK.

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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. GameDaily: The Sandbox has said that it wants to disrupt existing game makers like Minecraft and Roblox? There are several ways creators can monetize inside The Sandbox.

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