The Sandbox Project Update — Summer 2021
Many updates, drops aplenty, new features and a multitude of events, a lot has happened in the Metaverse this summer!
Lots of things have happened this summer in The Sandbox Metaverse. We’ve had seven wave of our Summer Jam LAND sales followed by The Walking Dead LAND sales, both the Game Maker and VoxEdit run smoother and faster than before, and many NFT drops, contests and events were launched around the summer theme. Read on to learn all about them now!
TL;DR:
- Summer Jam LAND Sale
- The Walking Dead LAND Sale
- The Sandbox New Map
- The Sandbox Marketplace Beta — NFT drops
- The Sandbox VoxEdit Beta: new features
- Game Maker V0.6.9: new features
- Liquidity Mining Phase 4: New NFT rewards
- Game Jam: Music Festival
- VoxEdit Contests: Pool Party & Architecture
Summer Jam LAND Sale
The seven week long Summer Jam LAND sale was a big success. From June 24th until August 12th more than 10,000 LANDs and premium LANDs were sold along with the introduction of an extensive list of new partners joining the Metaverse.
We welcome Hashmasks, ZED RUN, Metakey, Gutter Cats, Dingaling, SuperYeti, McDull, Shrine of Truth, Roxel, Zenft, Ethlings, Blond:ish, MODA DAO, South China Morning Post, Bitlectro, Cyberkongz, Monstrocities, GAMEE, Meebits DAO, The Fabricant, NFT Swapper, CryptoArt.AI, Wicked Craniums, OliveX, BNV, MoonCats and Round21 as the new partners that claimed stakes in our Metaverse during this special event. We can’t wait for everyone to see what we have in store with these amazing projects that are populating our map.
You can read more about these sales and the partners attached to them in the two articles below.
Record Breaking Month
During the month of July, all LAND available during our LAND sales sold for a total of 6,527,672.21 $SAND. The LAND that were auctioned sold for an additional 6,715,678.43 $SAND which amounted to a total of 9,161,011 $SAND. This makes July 2021 successfully break April’s record as our most prolific month in terms of LAND sales.
The Walking Dead
Parallel to our Summer Jam LAND sale we announced a new partner that would be joining our adventure: Skybound Entertainement’s renowned The Walking Dead was set to enter the Metaverse. This unique partnership entailed that fans of the comic would soon be able to be immersed in an authentic The Walking Dead game experience that was built specifically for The Sandbox metaverse.
“Bringing The Walking Dead comic book franchise to The Sandbox metaverse will offer fans a groundbreaking opportunity to play, create, socialize, inhabit and interact within a novel multiplayer gaming virtual world. It was important to us to offer a rich The Walking Dead experience in The Sandbox and leverage this first chance for players to create and share their own, user-generated new adventures featuring characters created by Robert Kirkman”. — Dan Murray, Co-CEO, Skybound Games & Merchandise
Visit The Sandbox & The Walking Dead landing page for more information on the partnership:
The Walking Dead LAND Sale
Following that announcement of our partnership, a LAND sale around their 24x24 ESTATE was announced. These sale started on August 26th and will run every Thursday at 1PM UTC until September 16th when the final wave will take place.
August Sales
The August LAND sales LAND amounted to $8,844,933, out of this $3,192,063 were from primary sales on our map.
With each new month that passes, we see an influx of new LAND owners and an unwavering support from our community which motivates us to achieve our goals of a UGC platform run by the community and for the community. These LAND owners have put their trust in our project and we intend to surpass their expectations all the way.
The Sandbox Dashboard
We have released a new map in accordance with our community’s requests and our roadmap. The new map includes multiple new features that ensure that research and navigation becomes a faster and smoother process.
Search Filters
We have new filters in place for when you are looking for a particular type of LAND on our map. You can now search specific LANDs via these criteria:
- On Sale: Filter LANDs that are currently for sale.
- Premium: Only show premium LANDs.
- My Lands: Shows your LANDs in the metaverse.
- Size: Filter LANDs by size.
- Coordinates: Filter LANDs between a set of coordinates.
- Wallet: You can filter LANDs held by a particular wallet address, if you know it.
- Partners: Select any partner to only view their LANDs.
- Clear: Use the clear option at the top if the filter menu to clear all your currently selected filters.
Lite Map
A “lite mode” is also available on the map, on the left toolbar. This mode will hide all small images on the map, improving loading times for some devices and networks. Images will only load depending on the zoom level if this option is enabled.
Mini-Map
In the top-left of the map you will see a smaller, mini-map. This can be used to help navigate the larger map. You can also use the drop-down box below it to instantly transport you to a specific part of the map.
Check our new map to get acquainted with these new perks.
The Sandbox NFT Marketplace Beta
The Sandbox NFT Marketplace beta is the place where artists can showcase their creations and monetize them.
Following its launch, we have successfully launched several NFT collection drops where NFT aficionados spent 18,7389 $SAND in July and 144,175 $SAND in August.
The Music Festival NFT collection had all the right NFTs to create your own jazzy experience within the metaverse.
Followed by a fantastic drop, the Mystical Festival, coming from the minds of talented Japanese artists.
The shopping cart is now available, allowing you to check out all your NFTs at once, speeding up all transactions. No excuses now, you can begin loading up on these amazing NFTs that are all listed in the Marketplace!
Visit the marketplace now to get your own NFTs!
Game Maker V0.6.9
The Game Maker is currently on its 0.6.9 version and with it we are introducing some awesome game characteristics for you to create and play the best of experiences. The Game Maker now loads faster while consuming less memory and all of that with a higher frame rate than ever.
Here are a few of the coolest features you can already test out in the Game Maker:
New Features
- NFT Image Self Illumination
Let the light shine bright with this new feature you decide if the environment illumination within your game experience will display the same brightness as the original NFT image or if it will show the default lighting conditions you’ve set.
- NFT Interact Component
A feature that gives you the opportunity to add this behaviour to any NFTs present in your experience. The interact component will then let the players inspect the NFT’s information: name, creator, owner, rarity and stats, as well as a button that opens a marketplace tab with the asset in the user’s browser. Any message can trigger this “NFT Details Display” and can be used on both internal assets or external NFT images.
Gameplay Improvements
As part of our constant improvements to the Gameplay and Combat system we’ve added the following features:
- Running Speed: Run away from your enemies, or charge at them 20% faster!
- Gameplay UI: Bust out your dancing shoes because we have added more random dance options.
- Music & SFX Settings: Blast the volume all the way up for an epic battle or turn it down for a stealth spy mode adventure. This new features gives you the power to adjust the Music and SFX volumes from the settings panel.
Our bug exterminator team quashed quite a few bugs with this new update. You won’t have to worry about various issues that caused random application crashes or to become unresponsive. Other bugs on gameplay and Editor Usability were fixed.
VoxEdit Beta — New Features
Improvements
- Undo
The amount of undo steps was increased from 10 to 30. - Fill In between
Found in the Timeline’s contextual menu, it allows for the automatic baking of keyframes.
- Send to All
Also in the Timeline’s contextual menu, it copies selected keyframes to all other animations, overwriting existing keyframes. - Select All and Delete All Keyframes
There’s now a quicker way to manage keyframes per Node. You can select multiple keyframes at once and delete them at will rendering your work all that swifter.
- Delete All Animations
This VoxEdit version will see the introduction of the long requested broom button feature in the Animations panel. The feature allows you to delete all animation in one fell swoop.
The Sandbox Liquidity Mining Phase 4
Currently in phase 4, The Sandbox liquidity mining program each month the pool will be replenished with 1,000,000 more $SAND and the LAND multiplier will remain active. Stakers that have liquidity in the pool from July 30th to August 30th are also eligible for the Golden Skull.
Next snapshot will be taken on September 30th to determine its lucky winners.
Last month’s reward NFT, the Golden Key, will soon become available for claim on our NFT page so keep an eye out for the upcoming announcement.
You can read more about the program and how you can participate by reading our article.
Game Jam — Summer Festival
Another game jam took place from July 23rd till August 6th. For this two-week long jam, participants had to submit a festival themed experience.
Shorter time didn’t mean that the submissions were of lesser quality. This goes to show that with the right tools and some creativity, you can achieve mind blowing experiences. Check the winners on the awards ceremony below and see for yourself:
VoxEdit Contests
Creating a UGC platform starts with giving our community the best tools to let their imagination run wild.
These contests bring out the inventive side of our community and manage to blow our expectations to the roof. So much so that we’ve empowered the winners of our previous two contests and made an NFT collection with their submissions.
https://www.sandbox.game/en/shop/?collections=21
Download VoxEdit for free and start creating your own amazing ASSETs today.
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