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Genre: Puzzle, Simulator, Strategy, Indie

The Sandbox

Final Days - Special Winter Xmas Sales 50% Discount - Don't Miss it!


Hello sandboxers!

Just a reminder of our special Xmas Sales promotion is ending on December 31st, so get it now!

SPECIAL WINTER 50% DISCOUNT - GET THE FULL VERSION FOR $4.99 USD INSTEAD OF $9.99!



So, what are you waiting for to craft virtual worlds on your PC?

Cheers
The Sandbox Team

Reminder - Special Winter Xmas Sales 50% Discount - Don't Miss it!

Hello sandboxers!

Just a reminder of our special Xmas Sales promotion, don't miss it!

[B]SPECIAL WINTER 50% DISCOUNT - GET THE FULL VERSION FOR $4.99 USD INSTEAD OF $9.99![/B]

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So, what are you waiting for to craft virtual worlds on your PC?

We wish you a Merry Xmas to all!
The Sandbox Team

Update Version 1.9.05 (October 10th, 2014)

Hello sandboxers!

Here comes the update 1.9.05 which should address stability issues of the game as we reduced the footprint of the game on the graphic memory.
The game should run faster and requires less RAM to run now!

What's New in version 1.9.05?


New Features & improvements
- New shortcuts for keyboard navigation: use TAB key and SHIFT+TAB to move up and down in menus
- Faster performance
- Reduced memory footprint


Feel free to share your feedback with us!

Thank you for your support!
The Sandbox Team

Update Version 1.9.03 (September 27th, 2014)

Hello sandboxers!

Here comes a huge 2-in-1 "ECOLOGY" + "NINJA" MASSIVE update for The Sandbox on Steam
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Become a true Ninja master with this exciting update featuring the 17 Japanese levels of the Shinobi Adventure where you’ll encounter many dangers!

Play also the Ecology Campaign through 20 levels, you’ll have to protect our planet by solving environmental puzzles!

Discover 24 new elements, related to Ninja or environment:
The Sun Stone to create a movement detection laser, the pink or white ninjas,best shinobi friends and 8 new wonderful Japanese blueprints to decorate your worlds.
Check also the natural elements : Disasters such as Tornado, Earthquake and Tsunami, Eruption and even the Nuke or the planet Earth 2 new Trees, Blue Whale, Salt and Sea Water!

What's New in version 1.9.02?


2 new campaigns:

  • Sneak through 17 beautiful levels of the Ninja Campaign
  • Protect the planet along the 20 levels of the Ecology Campaign!


Over 25 new elements:

  • Discover the new Ninja elements
  • Try also the new Planet Earth elements


New Features & improvements

  • Select your language from Game Properties among the 5 available: English, French, Spanish, German and Brazilian/Portuguese.
  • A lot of Bug fixes and level corrections!




Feel free to share your feedback with us!

Thank you for your support!
The Sandbox Team

Update Version 1.7.05 (September 2nd, 2014)

Hello sandboxers!

Hope you had a great summer time!

We are busy working on the second major update of The Sandbox on Steam, which will includes both Ninja and Ecology related contents.

Meanwhile, we are publishing this week a minor update that fixes a couple of bugs and improves overall stability of the game.

Stay tuned!

Thank you for your support!
The Sandbox Team

Update Version 1.7.02 (July 29th, 2014)

Hello sandboxers!

It’s been a while, let’s get down to this new 1.700 update.
We are still on our path to introduce exclusives features for the PC version, and controls are way better now!

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Check out below all the new stuff!

What's New in 1.7.02?



Steam Exclusives
▪ Steam achievements!
▪ New key Mapping:

- Navigate faster on the field!
P : Pause/Unpause
A/D - LEFT/RIGHT - HORIZONTAL SCROLL : Move left/right when zoomed
W/S - UP/DOWN - VERTICAL SCROLL : Move up/down when zoomed


- Navigate faster in menus!
1,2,3,4,5,6,7 : Element tabs (1 = Humans to 7 = Basic Elements)
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 : Brush sizes


- Control tanks and ninjas!

A/D - LEFT/RIGHT : Move left/right
SPACEBAR : Action


New Features
▪ Play the new User-Created 2 campaign: 10 levels of content created by the community!
▪ Improve your games and edit your levels with the 2 new Gaming elements (keyboard controllables)
=> Ninja, Avatar
▪ Several new backgrounds!


Feel free to share your feedback with us!

Thank you for your support!
The Sandbox Team

Update Version 1.6.05 (June 5th, 2014)

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Hello sandboxers!

We've been busy working on the first major update of The Sandbox on Steam,
We are progressiving introducing several exclusives features for this PC version, to improve the gameplay and controls on a computer!

Check out below all the new updates

What's New in 1.6.05?



Steam Exclusives
▪ Unlocked all elements in the Create mode - no more restrictions to creativity!
▪ Steam Workshop integration: export your creations there!
▪ No more limits of how many Humans you can spawn on screen

New Features
▪ Play the new Retro Gaming campaign: 12 levels of puzzle and skills challenge featuring some of the greatest video games of all time!
▪ Create your retro game and edit your levels with the 8 new Game elements (keyboard controllables)
=> Laser Bike, Intelli Bike, Sneaker, Shooter, Game Wall, Game Points, Area Multi and Attacker
▪ Several Retro backgrounds!

Various Improvements
▪ Use F1 to go to windowed mode and F2 to fullscreen mode
▪ Added keyboard controls with various shortcuts and playing with controllable elements
▪ New Introduction level
▪ Full game translation in Brazilian Portuguese - Saude, Viva!



Feel free to share with us your feedback!

Thank you for your support!
The Sandbox Team

Screenshots


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Update Version 1.5.19 (May 12th, 2014)

Hello sandboxers!

We are busy working on the first major update of The Sandbox on Steam, which will include several cool modifications you requested:
- all Elements will be unlocked in Create Mode!
- removal of Restrictions to spawn more than 6 humans
and more contents:
- new Retro Gaming elements (Spaceship, Tron, Snake etc)
- a controllable Ninja element
- new Retro Gaming campaign of 12 levels
And of course, many other improvements!

STAY TUNED!!

Meanwhile, we published today a new minor update (v1.5.19) which incorporates the following changes:

Improvements
- +30,000 Mana for all players!
- Weather is OFF by default in Create Mode
- Rating popup display less often
- Game Tutorial is more visible


Bugs Fixed
- small glitch on Zoom Behaviour
- Infinite loading when no results for a search in Online Gallery
- Robots element counter refreshing
- Drag/Draw texts when you're in Zoom
- Vertical scroll with mouse wheel fixed
- Backgrounds corrupted after taking screenshot


Other Changes
- Steamworks SDK has been updated to 1.29


Thank you for your support!
The Sandbox Team

Update Version 1.5.17 (May 5th, 2014)

Hello sandboxers!

We are reading all your comments and reviews of the game and will progressively improve the game based on your feedbacks!

Today, we published a new minor update (v1.5.17) which incorporates the following changes:


Improvements
- Fix on Full screen mode preserves aspect ratio in some resolutions

Other Changes
- Spanish translations corrections



Thank you for your support!
Pixowl Team

Update Version 1.5.16 (April 25th, 2014)

Hello sandboxers!

We are keeping working hard every day to improve the game thanks to your feedback!
We're also trying to address all the issues you found.

We published today a new minor update (v1.5.16) which incorporates the following changes:

The major change is visual, where we decided to preserve the original pixel ratio when you are in fullscreen, adding borders to the left and right side if needed.
As you can see on these examples:
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Let us know your feedback and which display mode you prefer!


Improvements
- Full screen mode preserves aspect ratio and shows stone boarders instead of stretching screen.
- Clicking 'HD Only' filter now initiates a new search in the gallery.
- Right click to bring up context menus
- Scroll wheel and cursor arrows now work on Load World

Other Changes
- 'Tap's replaced with 'Click's in the text.


Thank you for your support!
Pixowl Team