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Indie dev Welevel raises $5.7M in seed funding round

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The studio will put its new funding money toward its unannounced sandbox game and its set of AI tools for game development.

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Roblox devs say socialization is what makes the creator-led sandbox tick

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Voldex CEO Alex Singer and CPO Andrew Rose say socialization-friendly design is key to making a successful Roblox game.

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New indie, NEARstudios founded by ex Bethesda, Bioware and Naughty Dog devs

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Its debut release, Hawthorn, is a co-op sandbox RPG inspired by Skyrim and Stardew Valley

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Re-Logic's Terraria has sold 58.7 million copies in 13 years

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Over half of the sandbox game's sales belong to the PC market, and Re-Logic thanked all players for their ongoing support over the years.

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

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"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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Minecraft crosses 300 million sales ahead of 15th anniversary

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The blocky sandbox is still delivering the goods for both Mojang and Microsoft.

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Announcing Stars Reach

Raph Koster

This is the game I have wanted to make for nearly thirty years. It has in it all the lessons of all these decades of online game development — and it looks forward, not back, to reinvent what an online world can be. I believe it does things that other games just can’t do.

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