Platinum Arts Sandbox Free 3D Game Maker was voted the #5 Indie Game Of 2009 at Moddb.com! Thank you so much to everyone whom has supported us and I think we did really well especially considering the first three winners don't have a release. We had to beat out over 14k projects just to get in the top 100 so thanks so much for everyone's help and maybe next year we'll be ranked even higher :D
Expect a new release of Sandbox in the next few weeks! We're very excited to welcome our new coder team member Graphitemaster whom has created a vehicle mode! I'm also very excited to annouce our new forum moderator Tyche and our forum support team Arcones, Gr1m, Leo_V117, and Venima! Very nice to have these additions to our team and we appreciate their hard work. Hirato has also been hard at work as always and is reworking the RPG mode to much more usable!
Craving more Sandbox news? Well now we have a new Sandbox Blog that will have a feature every Sunday, making Sunday Super Spectacular Sandbox Sunday! Update:We now have a comment system so you can comment on the news and blog!
We could really use someone to help us compile Mac builds. If you are interested please e-mail us and/or stop into our chatroom.
Interested in playing a fun free RPG? Damian over at The Golden Coin has released his .300 with some great features including Save Games!
Key Features Of The Upcoming Sandbox Release: * Vehicle Mode with GTA style of being able to enter and exit vehicles. A community member has already adapted this mode to create flyable planes! * Widget Based User Interface aka much easier to customize * Reworked the RPG mode including improving the minimap and being able to polymorph! * Revised directory structure. Maps go into their appropriate gamemode. * In game video recording menu to easier record your Sandbox advetures! * SMD and IQM model support * Ask upon exit if you want to save.
* Tons of bugfixes including a workaround for that nasty ATI Graphics card crashing problem due to their bad drivers.
If you want to have your maps or other content in Sandbox for this release it needs to be submitted soon! The media wanted list will be updated but in general we could use: * Fun Maps for Vehicle Mode * Any fun and interesting maps that help show the world what Sandbox is capable of! * Models and textures content that can be used commercially so that we can replace the noncommercial content * Suggestions on ways to improve Sandbox * Spreading the word and telling people about Sandbox. Also every webpage that Sandbox is linked on is a big deal but no spamming please! :)
IMPORTANT: If you have an ATI graphics card and you are experiencing random crashes, there is an OpenGL bug in the newer ATI Drivers. A workaround is to type /oqdynent 0 in the console (hit the ` button above TAB to enter the console).
Have you ever thought about using video games to create your own movies and comics? Then check out the MovieCube Video and Sandbox comics! Scroll down to the second news post, I didn't want to bump the 2.5 news!
About Platinum Arts Sandbox Free 3D Game Maker:
Platinum Arts Sandbox Free 3D Game Maker is an open source game design program for kids and adults. Through the ingame and cooperative editing and focus on ease of use the program is easy enough for kids to use but powerful enough for full game projects. Sandbox includes Save The Princess Gameplay, an RPG Maker, a Sidescoller maker, a Movie Maker aka Machinima, Save The Banana Base Capture, and more! Sandbox is already being used in many schools and colleges throughout the world and included in game design contests.
Platinum Arts Sandbox Free 3D Game Maker 2.5 Release:
Sandbox 2.5 Changelog Overall: Updated Launcher for Windows and Linux (wxwidgets 2.8.10) thanks to Zkat from VirtualDarkArts.com Many major bug fixes and optimizations The Masterserver will be up and running soon. It is now fixed and working thanks to Quin Many new models thanks to Vickie Eagle including an Airship! New GUI Themes Thanks To Chaze007 (select them in options)
Sidescroller Gametype: New Jungle Map by Nieb Item Box Model by Hirato, now capable of ejecting items New Dynamic Camera that can be adjusted Projectile & Powerup Updates Including a Lavarock projectile by Daniel_san Here is the Preview Video that is already improved in 2.5!
RPG Gametype: Savegames Minimap /testminimap 1 to turn on. Spells include - Fireball, light, invisibility, Frost, Speed and more. /testproj creates a random projectile and shows you the value so it can be repeated. Try /loop i 50 testproj to shoot 50 projectiles at once! Here it is /testproj in action (note adblock has to be off):
MovieCube Preview Version: Create your own Machinima movies in Sandbox thanks to Offtools! For more information on the commands please see our section on our wiki: http://sandboxgamemaker.com/wiki/index.php?title=MovieCube We'll have a movie out of this soon :D MovieCube is a very powerful tool that lets you create scripts for models to follow. Press TAB to access the menu when in MovieCube Mode! Check out this video by a GoBologna, a High School student who is demonstrating scripted waypoint paths he created with only a few minutes of tinkering.
There are a ton more updates and changes so be sure to grab this version of Sandbox! Thanks and for your interest! Take care. -mike
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