Who after years spent playing favorite video games, feeling now an expert in the sector, wouldn't want to try their hand at creating their own interactive games, immediately putting them to the test of the judgment of the other players? The possibility, already offered in the past by other titles such as Roblox, Dreams, Little Big Planet and others, becomes arevolutionary opportunity to have fun and enter, if you wish, the entrepreneurial market thanks to The Sandbox, the online universe that makes the tools and the ad hoc business model available to simple enthusiasts, aspiring creatives and small software houses.
The Sandbox: the new development platform
To test yourself just sign up on gamemaker.sandbox.game and download the Game Maker software, already made available in the Alpha version: once you enter you can indulge in the creation of a game using voxels, volumetric pixels (or if you prefer small cubes) that allow you to create worlds and characters as the unit of measurement of your creativity.
Anyone who has an idea for a game can also submit it to The Sandbox, which created an ad hoc $ 2 million fund to finance the 4 most innovative and compelling proposals with figures ranging from $ 30 to $ 100., and will provide advice during the development phases, as well as promote the publication of the same games on the platform.
The software allows you to start from a totally new three-dimensional plan or to choose a setting (a desert, a city, and so on) among those made available in the software or shared by other users, and to start modifying it and build your own gaming experience, also thanks to the sister program VoxEdit, available to make your own objects and characters or to use those imagined by a group of 3D artists and graphic designers selected by The Sandbox.
Subsequently it will be possible to establish the game mechanics, define the avatars and non-player characters and, refining the level of interactivity in every detail, it will thus be possible to shape an adventure, a platformer, an RPG and many other genres, because the limit to what one can create is given only by one's own imagination.
The use of cryptocurrency
To use Game Maker you need to have an Ethereum wallet, a virtual wallet linked to the blockchain (a tamper-proof digital public register), a technology through which the ownership of every object, character, construction or video game will be guaranteed, as much as the sale to other users or companies, which it will be done using The Sandbox's digital currency called $ SAND.
All this will result in a real market for videogames and experiences, where those who own pieces of this metaverse will be able to build their own games on them and charge the ticket to those who want to try or buy them, or rent the digital earth to those who have created a game and need the environment in which to host it.
All this, according to the developers, will allow to build a real new economy based on videogames in which the players themselves will stop downloading a game for free and then pay for special or additional content, will be able to monetize their gaming experience, with the collection of digital artifacts that will have an economic value, and if they want to become real entrepreneurs able to launch their own videogame to see how it is received by the market.
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