The Sandbox — Introducing Pre-Season 0
TLDR;
- The Sandbox Metaverse’s first public alpha version is coming up and will represent everything our project is all about, that is to provide you as a player, creator, LAND owner, or $SAND holder a first taste of the ultimate blockchain sandbox experience in our virtual gaming world.
- It introduces a Pre-Season 0 event, that will be available in early 2021 for players to get a first touch of our Play-to-Earn system, paving the way for Season 1 and future Seasons.
- It will be a 15-day event and players can earn $SAND prizes, as well as other exclusive prizes including NFT ASSETs.
- It will be packed with more than 40 exclusive experiences offering dozens of hours of fun and challenging playtime, mixing social hubs, faction levels, User Generated Content “UGC” games from the gallery or the Game Maker Fund!
- The first 1,000 users to complete the Pre-Season objectives will be rewarded with 1,000 $SAND tokens each!
- Pre-Register now to be among the first to be notified when Pre-Season 0 will officially launch at https://sandbox.game/en/whitelist/experiences/
Welcome to the first public alpha version of The Sandbox, which will give players, creators, LAND owners, and $SAND holders their first taste of the ultimate experience we are building over the coming years in our virtual gaming world. We’re happy to share with you more highlights on what the team has been working on these past few months and what we’re preparing to launch next year!
The alpha Pre-Season 0 will be opening its doors in early 2021 and will offer a first touch of our Play-to-Earn system. Players will be able to participate in a 15-day event and earn $SAND prizes if they can complete it, as well as other exclusive prizes including NFT ASSETs.
We will announce more details about the forthcoming starting dates of the Pre-Season in January 2021.
What can you play in Pre-Season 0?
Pre-Season 0 will let users play “experiences” that are autonomous levels with various objectives and gameplay. Platforming, fighting, solving puzzles, investigating, exploration, time attack, collecting… and much more !!
To complete adventures, players will need perseverance, ingenuity, and skill. A deep fog covers the Play map initially, hiding the experiences scattered on the map from the player.
Any user that joins Pre-Season will be able to play all the experiences that have currently been revealed, offering around 45 minutes of play time through new content and experiences — and will have to wait for the next day to unveil a couple more experiences. Not including replay value, Pre-Season 0 should offer at least 12 hours of play to a normal user.
After 15 days, the fog will be removed and all the experiences on the map will be available. As we control which experience will be revealed each day we can guide players by making sure each day brings new content with increased difficulty. This allows players to explore the map and unlock higher tiers of gameplay the more active they are.
What has our team worked on so far?
The Sandbox is an avatar-based game where players experience all the content through a customizable avatar.
The Sandbox team and its partners have put together a catered user experience designed to allow Pre-Season players to discover our Ecosystem and IP.
We want to make sure that every Pre-Season 0 player will feel welcomed in our world and will want to come back. We have been working hard to make the experience accessible for all to ensure that all eligible players can focus solely on playing the game. We still have some polishing to do as we want to offer players the best experience possible!
Pre-Season Content: Games, Levels, and Factions
The very first Pre-Season (“Pre-Season 0”) will be packed with more than 40 exclusive The Sandbox approved experiences offering dozens of hours of fun and challenging playtime!
Here’s a sneak peek of the gameplay experiences and social hubs.
Social hubs
Socials hubs are the main lobbies of The Sandbox. Here you’ll be able to find other players, chat with them, and wander around the amazing experiences we have ready for you.
Factions
Factions will have their own experiences that will take part in the season’s rewards. You can expect these game experiences to be the most challenging and immersive experiences in the Sandbox metaverse.
Games from Creators supported by the Game Makers Fund
Our Game Maker’s Fund helps skilled game creators and talented voxel artists to create high-quality content in our playable Metaverse that you’ll be able to enjoy soon.
Take a look at some of the amazing experiences made and powered by the Game Maker Fund.
Gallery game experiences
Already available on the Game Maker’s Gallery right now —these game experiences are created by skilled Sandbox users such as Shon-T, Alma, CobaltVoxel, KamiSawZe, Perlin, Zeldrast, and jbbabOu.
How will players access the experiences?
All those experiences are placed on the Play map and will be unlocked in a planned schedule over the 15 day period of the Pre-Season.
When you click on an available experience on the Play map, information is displayed: name, description, preview image, and a list of the rarest assets present in that experience. The user can access the marketplace from here to purchase those rare ASSETs if desired.
Once inside an experience the user is physically on the Play map and can access other experiences without going back to the dashboard — for example, if experience B is placed to the right of experience A on the Play map, the user can access experience B by running toward the east while inside experience A until reaching the edge between the 2 experiences and unlock a teleport to the spawn point of experience B.
Users are also able to teleport on the map directly to the edges for fast travel.
Inside experiences, users are able to loot and equip items to help them overcome the challenges put in front of them — any item can be equipped, offering a huge diversity of choice to experienced creators. Pre-season loot is not persistent between experiences yet but this will come very soon!
When is Pre-Season 0 launching?
Pre-Season 0 will launch in early 2021 once we are done polishing the levels and experiences. We will announce more details about the forthcoming starting dates of the Pre-Season in January 2021.
Who can access Pre-Season 0?
We will be giving prime access to the Pre-Season 0 to all LAND owners. Additionally, we will also progressively enable access to further players on a pre-registration basis.
Pre-Register now to be among the first notified when Pre-Season 0 will officially launch at https://sandbox.game/en/whitelist/experiences/
What are the rewards of Pre-Season 0?
The first 1,000 users to complete the Pre-Season objectives will be rewarded with 1,000 $SAND tokens each!
Anybody can win; you don’t have to grind for hours or pay micro-transactions to get the upper hand. You just have to enjoy the game and come back often.
A counter on the Play map will inform the player on how many users have claimed the reward and thus how many are left to grab.
Once all 1,000 rewards are claimed, the user can still play the season as normal. The only difference is they won’t get any additional reward for completing all objectives.
Also, as Pre-Season is an exceptional moment, every user will receive a unique NFT reward for participating. Upon entering one LAND for the first time of the pre-season the user will be rewarded with the unique NFT.
What can I do with the $SAND I get from my reward or if I buy some on the marketplace?
$SAND can be used to purchase additional LANDs (as anyone playing the Pre-Season will already own at least one LAND), or to purchase NFTs from the marketplace.
We want users to be able to purchase the cool assets they encounter while playing the game. On the Play page of each experience, a column on the right will show off the most remarkable and rarest assets of that experience.
The best and rarest assets used in all pre-season experiences will be up for sale on this page so that any user planning to construct experiences or speculate on asset values in the future can start their collection.
What’s coming after Pre-season 0?
The focus of this first Pre-Season is to allow players to discover how fun playing The Sandbox is. After this, our goal will be to release the whole ecosystem and let the users take charge of the product!
Season 1 should bring the rest of the ecosystem to life, with permanent progression achievement, daily quests, loot, levels, XP — and the cyclical ecosystem with consistent Play-to-Earn and UGC publishing.
It’s important that the game expands over the next few seasons and becomes a world that is controlled and owned by the community. We want the Metaverse to be the canvas of our community’s creativity. We plan to offer multiplayer experiences, cyclical game economy, consistent Play-to-Earn rewards, character progression, a permanent game world, and a ton of additional content!
The Sandbox should only be a player in the Metaverse and not the owner.
The Sandbox intends to expand on lore and to introduce new features for each season will be added, but the core content of the game — the experiences — will be produced, judged, praised, improved, and played by the users!
Seasons will fall into a template of predetermined duration and reward — each season bringing some new features to the product, some new The Sandbox hand-made content to introduce those features, and meta-objectives for the community and individuals to complete.
We will introduce leaderboards so that the most dedicated users can see themselves at the top of the charts, rewarded in accordance with their skill and love for the game.
Loot and equipment systems will shift from an in-experience-limited feature to a permanent progression tool for the user’s avatar. Gear your character up to tackle more dangerous adventures or to show off in town!
How often do we plan to run these events?
We want The Sandbox to be an ever-evolving world that expands and changes under the community’s actions. This means that new user-generated content should be released every day, with new experiences taking the place of old ones!
In parallel, we want to organize a seasonal The Sandbox content release every few months to expand on lore and tools to keep the game fresh.
Looking Forward into the Metaverse
The Sandbox Metaverse’s first public alpha version is coming up and will represent everything our project is all about, that is to provide you as a player, creator, LAND owner, or $SAND holder a first taste of the ultimate blockchain sandbox experience in our virtual gaming world.
We know that there may be a lot of questions yet to be answered, but worry not, we are eager to share the new and exciting developments we are working on more than you can imagine. We have come a long way from what started as a very ambitious project, to the point we are reaching, a truly decentralized blockchain sandbox virtual gaming world.
Exciting news are coming this way, and we thank you all for being part of this amazing journey. Stay tuned for more in 2021 and all our best wishes for the end of the year.
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