Learn Creator Basics
Valuable information for all creators, starting with the key ingredients of an Experience and an overview of The Sandbox creative ecosystem.
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Valuable information for all creators, starting with the key ingredients of an Experience and an overview of The Sandbox creative ecosystem.
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The Sandbox is a blockchain-powered virtual environment of interactive 3D Experiences, such as games, which can take the form of whatever you can imagine. An Experience can be and even .
The Marketplace now empowers creators to Mint & Sell NFTs made in VoxEdit, and Game Maker allows you to design exclusive gameplay accessible to your NFT holders. Learn more about Monetisation.
The Sandbox Game is an ecosystem of free integrated tools to create, share, compete, publish, launch, and monetise your content with ease. Creators participate in The Sandbox in different ways depending on the type of content they make or the projects they work on.
We have all the tools you need to create an Experience from start to finish and a comprehensive Game Production Guide to help you manage your project workflow.
If you own , you can publish Experiences to the Map. Even if you don't own LAND, you can create a free Experience Page to help players learn about your project.
Create static and animated Assets using our free VoxEdit software and manage them in your Workspace. Assets can also be used in your own Experiences or minted and sold on the to players and creators:
Publish an Experience to your virtual and monetise with NFTs. You can create a free Experience Page to share your project - even if you don't own LAND!
To get started, create an Experience in Game Maker. Even if it's still a work in progress, you can find it in and click on it to open the Experience Manager and prepare it for publishing.
To publish an Experience on the , you must also own all entities, or assets, used in it. Some of these may be NFTs being sold on the Marketplace that you've tested but haven't purchased yet. The Experience Manager will help you verify all of the details to simplify your launch!
On the you can purchase Assets others create to use in your Experiences. You can also create assets in VoxEdit and use them in your own Experiences without minting as NFTs.
While you can't purchase an Experience someone created on the Marketplace, you can transfer an Experience from on The Sandbox website. This method is often used by studios or independent creators building Experiences for LAND owners.
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to your account at The Sandbox is the first step to unlock ownership and monetisation potential:
Blocks Blocks are the terrain in your Experience.
Create them in VoxEdit's Block Editor by painting textures on 6 faces of a cube. Use normal and/or emissive light and set your block to be solid or liquid and its transparency level when uploading to Workspaces. Specific blocks can damage players and entities using Game Maker logic.
Entities An Entity is a type of asset used as an interactive object, such as non-player characters (NPCs), buildings, etc.
Create assets in VoxEdit or purchase User Generated Content in the Marketplace. Use templates to save time! Use Game Maker to drag and drop assets and bring them to life with logic.
Logic Every object in an Experience can be set with custom behaviour and component logic to govern its actions, communication with other objects, and interactive potential.
Objects communicate with Objectives (quests) and Game Rules to create variety of polished, unique gameplays without code.
Avatars Avatars are the means of player interaction within Experiences and represent a player's multifaceted identity. Customise logic related to player Avatars in Game Maker.
Publish Experiences Create a free Experience Page - even if you don't own LAND! Use the link to share your project with the world and build community.
Connect your Experience to your virtual LAND so it can be discovered on the metaverse Map opened in the Launcher. Use built in Experience Analytics to see your page and Experience traffic over time.
Earn passive income by staking SAND
Buy NFTs to play or create
Mint your own NFTs to sell on the Marketplace to players and creators
Locate your Experience on the metaverse Map at your LAND coordinates Require NFT ownership to enter an Experience
Design NFT ownership to trigger unique gameplay in an Experience
Build Experiences faster with User Generated Content made by other creators
Own game changing equipment NFTs to use across Experiences
