What Is The Sandbox?

The Sandbox is a multiplayer game that allows players to create amazing and stunning worlds with unique objects. For example, you can build a labyrinth, do puzzles, draw relief maps, or send other users an invitation to the created world.

The project is being developed so players can realize their ideas and make their games. Programming skills are not required.

The Sandbox blockchain gaming platform comprises three related products that offer a complete framework for creating user-generated content (UGC).

In addition, users will gain even more from the merged services since they can ensure copyright ownership for their user-created material using blockchain and smart contracts.

• VoxEdit is a simple-to-use and powerful free 3D voxel modeling and NFT creation application for PC/Mac that allows users to create and animate 3D objects such as humans, animals, vehicles, foliage, tools, and items. Voxels, square 3D pixels similar to building blocks, can be manipulated using VoxEdit to create beautiful creations quickly. In addition, you can list the objects you make as NFTs in the Marketplace for sale.
• The Sandbox's NFT Marketplace allows users to upload, publish, and sell their VoxEdit-created NFTs. To verify ownership, creations are firstly uploaded to an IPFS network for decentralized storage before being registered on the blockchain. Once completed, the creations become ASSETS that can be sold by putting an initial sale offer on the Marketplace where interested buyers can purchase them.
• The Sandbox Game Maker allows anyone to create fantastic 3D games for free. Because of accessible visual scripting tools, no coding is required to create amazing 3D games in minutes. As a result, creators like you contribute to a large metaverse full of diverse interactive creations and experiences.

It is a virtual world in which players own and customize the 166 thousand different land parcels it's made of.

On those land parcels, which are represented as non-fungible tokens on the Ethereum blockchain, the landowners can do whatever they want: build games, virtual museums, or other creative creations.

The world of The Sandbox is made out of voxels. From that perspective, it's very similar to Minecraft. However, in The Sandbox, everybody can make a game, design fashionable characters or earn SAND tokens by completing quests.

Everybody in The Sandbox contributes to the game's ecosystem and earns rewards. That's a true play-to-earn business model.

How to start playing The Sandbox?

Let me say this first, you don't need money to start playing this game or even earn with it!!!!!

To begin with, go to The Sandbox website, where, to be expected with any blockchain project on the web, the primary thing you'll be asked to do when you enter is connect a crypto wallet.

However, you don't necessarily need any crypto tokens in your wallet to get started on The Sandbox. Instead, you need a safe place ready to receive the tokens you might earn.

Next, you have to supply an email address and choose a nickname.

The next step is to create an avatar for the ingame world of The Sandbox using the provided Avatar maker. The biggest problem you'll face at this step is indecisiveness, given many choices but don't forget to be creative with your choices.

Once you're done with the avatar, you want to play the game. ObviousThex world is structured according to a map for easy navigation. You can see all the plots of digital land worldwide and click whichever interests you.

This geographic style of presentation of projects-within-the-project is pretty standard for metaverse games.

If you run your cursor over the map, you'll see that many of the things there are "experiences," typically games with levels to be completed. They're designed by your fellow players, not by the developers behind the environment itself.

You will likely see pop-up boxes announcing you have completed "0/15 quests." You can jump straight into one of the quests if you want. Before you can, you'll be asked to download The Sandbox client software, which is a free and quick process.

How does The Sandbox work?

The Sandbox has been around for much longer than the NFT boom – they've been putting out games for mobile devices since 2011, with no blockchain element at all. It was only in 2018 that the company pivoted towards blockchain.

The substantial advance of The Sandbox's move to the blockchain is that players can trade the things they build in the game and make their ownership verifiable outside the game environment.

You don't need the developers to say you own your Sandbox creations. Instead, it is recorded indelibly in the blockchain.

The project's utility token is SAND. You'll need it to buy anything else. It was initially made on the Ethereum network but began transitioning to Polygon in 2021, along with the whole Sandbox NFT ecosystem.

The project cited environmental reasons for the switch, saying it could reduce its carbon footprint.

How to earn with The Sandbox?

As the game's main idea is to make unique items you can sell, you have to get creative to make money in The Sandbox.

• If you are into art, you can create artwork and sell them on the market to earn some SAND.
• If you're more into game design, the easiest way is to create games and charge other players to play them.
• Owning LAND can also bring you money - as more players invest in the game, the price of LAND increases, and it can be turned into profit.
• The Sandbox will also allow users to rent out their LAND to others - for example, to game designers who do not own any LAND.

You can understand more about how to earn in the next paragraph.

What are SAND and LAND?

SAND is also used for staking on The Sandbox network on Polygon, meaning that holders of the token can participate in verifying transactions on the network if they deposit their tokens temporarily.

They are rewarded for doing so with more SAND tokens. As of May 2022, The Sandbox said almost $100 million in value of SAND tokens were locked in staking.

After SAND, you'll want to think about LAND, which is required to build anything within the game.

There is a fixed supply of LAND tokens: 166,464. That means, in theory, if user numbers and public interest in the contest continue to grow, then the value of those LAND tokens should increase.

Once you have LAND, you can get creative. For one thing, you can make your games-within-the-game using freely downloadable Game Maker software. If you want, you can do this in cooperation with other players.

You can also create visual artworks using VoxEdit, which describes itself as the leading software that allows you to create, rig, and animate your own voxel-based NFTs.

LAND's actual use is to let game designers build, distribute, and monetize a digital product. You can also participate in games developed by other users. At the creator's discretion, such projects can be paid or free.

The items you create this way are given blockchain tokens called ASSETs, making them tradable, and they can be turned into NFTs.

These tokens can have other tokens called GEMs and CATALYSTs attached to them, affecting their value. But this is something you can delve into once you've started – you may not be interested in this aspect of The Sandbox.

The final thing to note about LAND is that you can also rent your LAND out to other users. This means you can earn a passive income from it while others get a chance to be the creative ones.