The Sandbox

The Sandbox reiterated that Sandbox Studio is launching later this month, amplifying a post from @viewfromhk about why the team built the creator studio. It follows the studio's first 3.5 months of closed alpha and beta, which produced 8 product releases, 4 game jams, 100+ handpicked creators and 100+ games built.

• Launch marks the next step for the studio's open tech stack (Codex, Claude Code, Gemini) and templates including side-scrolling and 3rd-person action
• Positioning leans on giving creators faster, lighter tools vs. starting from scratch

The Sandbox shared a progress recap for The Sandbox Studio covering its first 3.5 months of closed alpha & beta: 8 product releases, 4 game jams, 100+ handpicked creators and 100+ games built.

• Partnerships and integrations now include Meshy and Scenario, with more announced as coming soon
• The studio runs an open tech stack built on Codex, Claude Code and Gemini, with open distribution across web and mobile

The post frames the figures around the studio's path to public launch, following the beta-era cadence of engine updates, example games and creator jams.

The Sandbox is supporting Hollywood Hills, a community-owned financing initiative that lets fans hold equity in a cosmic horror feature film from the ground up. The film, a debut from writer-director Benjamin Rozovas set over one night on a Los Angeles "Dead & Famous" death tour bus, is raising $2.5 million through a Reg CF offering on the Republic platform, led by Sandbox co-founders Arthur Madrid and Sébastien Borget with The Sandbox as strategic marketing and community partner.

• Fans can co-invest and hold a contractual share of the film's revenue — recouping 120% before further profits are split evenly between investors and producers
• The campaign includes a 3,000-piece "Hollywood Hills Villas" NFT collection, available only to the first 1,000 investors
• A real-world "Dead & Famous" bus tour with Grave Line Tours launches this October, with first rides reserved for investors

The Sandbox shared the director's pitch and opened a waitlist at hollywoodhills.cc.

The Sandbox has announced the winners of its WTF? Jam, judged by Major Nelson (Larry Hryb). 1st Place went to Meowmentum by @LeeOccleshaw, an endless runner packed with cat-related events and power-ups; 2nd Place went to THE CORPORATE GLITCH by @the_bit_fox, where a reply-all email by an intern unleashes office chaos; and 3rd Place went to YEET! by @RicardoDeZoete.

The 5-day jam, launched with a $4,000 prize pool, asked creators to build something fast, weird and fun that people can't resist sharing. All three winning games are now playable.

The Sandbox has released Still Sun, a new example game built with The Sandbox Studio and MeshyAI 3D assets that creators can mine for reusable features. The game showcases a combat system, time fracture mechanic, animations, SFX & environments so builders can save time instead of starting from scratch.

The release continues The Sandbox's push to hand creators ready-made building blocks alongside the Studio Beta engine and its growing template library.

The Sandbox issued a security notice to its community about an exploit in Payment Processor V2, an old trading contract built by Limit Break and used by Magic Eden in 2024. The vulnerability is being exploited to take NFTs from wallets that previously listed assets on Magic Eden.

• Affects wallets with legacy approvals from Magic Eden's former EVM marketplace (listings roughly February–October 2024)
• An attacker stole NFTs before white-hat operators rescued tens of thousands of assets, per reporting from Revoke.cash and others
• The Sandbox is flagging the risk to holders who listed its NFTs on the marketplace

The notice advises users who listed on Magic Eden to check for and revoke lingering approvals to the vulnerable contract to protect their assets from theft.

The Sandbox Beta Creator Game Jam — held under the theme "Overgrown" with a $7,500 base prize pool and judged live alongside Major Nelson (Larry Hryb) — has announced its winners. 1st Place went to Omniscient by @lifemademe, an AI-identity game where players listen, observe and connect before starting to ask their own questions.

• 2nd Place: Farmadillo by @LeeOccleshaw (farming sim + pinball + tower defense)
• 3rd Place: TERRA RIFT by @RicardoDeZoete (fast-paced shooter with terrain-as-weapon and dinos)
• Bonus winners: Best Movement — Voridra; Most Atmospheric — Reggae Riddim DJ; Best Idea We Want to Steal — Overgrown Ordinance; Most Unexpected Take on Overgrown — Gary: Patient Zero; Hardest to Put Down — Overgrown Royale; Most Ambitious — LIVING DUNGEON

The Sandbox has since spotlighted Voridra by @Ixuraaa, built with The Sandbox Studio, as the Best Movement winner, sharing gameplay footage and a play link. The Jam ran alongside the release of The Sandbox Studio Beta (Engine v14), the lighter, faster engine that introduced unified SceneNodes, first-class Prefabs, an in-editor AI Assistant, and new side-scrolling and 3rd-person action templates en route to the studio's public launch. Winners were revealed in a streamed broadcast with the Sandbox team and Major Nelson.

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The Sandbox shipped another update to The Sandbox Studio Engine — its second in under three weeks — introducing faster physics queries, a rebuilt Particle Editor with sub-emitters, new templates including an RTS game example, and workflow upgrades across the editor.

• Faster physics queries
• Particle Editor overhaul + sub-emitters
• New templates + RTS game example
• Workflow upgrades across the editor

The full changelog is linked from the announcement, continuing the studio's steady cadence of engine improvements since the Studio Beta launch.

The Sandbox is calling on graphic designers to submit a design for its new Agent Persona, with $3,000 USD going to the winning entry. Submissions are open for one week.