The SAND Play Game Jam

The Sandbox is joyful to announce its subsequent slam-dunking recreation design contest — the SAND Play Sport Jam.

This Sport Jam is dropped at you by a partnership between The Sandbox and Round21.

Round21 goals to raise the sense, originality and artistic expression that’s present in each individual, beginning with what’s most core to their identification — their sport. Learn more about Round21 by clicking here.

Utilizing The Sandbox’s Sport Maker software program, you’ll need to create a sports-related expertise, whether or not it’s primarily based on an actual sport — trendy or previous — or one thing straight out of your inventive creativeness.

It is usually as much as you whether or not the participant participates within the sport. For instance, you can create a recreation the place the participant must compete towards one other workforce in a sport, a recreation the place the participant wants to assist handle a sporting occasion, an academic diorama the place the participant can find out about a historic sport, and so forth.

It’s as much as you — so long as it follows the sporty theme! Use your creativity to recreate and even reimagine sports activities within the metaverse. The ball is in your court docket.

The prize pool consists of a complete of fifty,000 SAND break up the next methods.

• 1st place: 20,000 SAND.
• 2nd place: 10,000 SAND.
• third place: 6,000 SAND.
• 4th to Tenth place: 2,000 SAND every.

Don’t overlook to jog these dates down!

• The Sport Jam begins on the twenty fourth December 2021.
• The deadline to finish and submit your entry is the ninth January 2022, at 11:59pm UTC.
• The voting will happen between the Tenth and seventeenth January 2022.
• The outcomes might be introduced on the twenty second January 2022.

Let’s be sporting about this, please observe these guidelines.

• Your entry should be designed within the Sport Maker software program.
• Your entry should be centred across the theme of sports activities.
• Your entry should have some playability.
• Your entry should be distinctive and never a direct copy of any current sporting video games (similarities are superb, precise copies aren’t!)
• Spamming the gallery with a lot of low high quality experiences simply to try to match into the 4th-Tenth locations could lead to all of your entries being disqualified.
• The judging might be completed externally by a panel of The Sandbox’s employees and Round21’s workforce.
• Not finishing the submission steps accurately (see under) could lead to your entry being ineligible.

We might be utilizing the Sport Maker “Gallery” characteristic as a kind for submissions. You MUST add your recreation to the gallery following the GIF tutorial under and utilizing the title: “SAND PLAY GAME JAM — Sport Title”

You MUST additionally submit your recreation to the next kind hyperlink

WARNING! If you happen to submit your entry to the Sport Jam gallery however don’t submit it to the shape linked above (or vice versa), your entry won’t be eligible!
Decelerate — verify every thing! Generally gradual and regular wins the race.

Who can be a part of the Sport Jam?

Anybody who’s eligible to create an account at The Sandbox can enter the Sport Jam.

Are groups or studios allowed?

Sure. You might be welcome to work independently or as a workforce/studio.

Can we use customized ASSETs in our Sport Jam entries?

Sure. You should utilize the VoxEdit software program to design your individual ASSETs to make use of in your Sport Jam entry. You probably have not completed so already, you’ll need to fill out this way to have the ability to submit your customized ASSETs for approval: https://forms.gle/D5HHnHFRS9p3LNpq7.

Please word that the time it takes on your ASSET submissions to be authorised relies on a number of elements, akin to The Sandbox workforce member’s timezones, weekends, public holidays, and workloads. Please bear these elements in thoughts and ensure you submit your ASSETs at your earliest comfort. Then be affected person.

The place can I get the Sport Maker and/or VoxEdit from?

Listed below are the official hyperlinks:

The place can I discover guides for the Sport Maker and VoxEdit software program?

Take a look at the tutorials web page on The Sandbox’s official information base right here: https://sandboxgame.gitbook.io/the-sandbox/other/tutorials.

It’s also possible to be a part of our Discord neighborhood, the place creators usually share ideas with one another and publish their very own tutorials. It’s also possible to share your entry with the neighborhood for suggestions, if you want. The Discord neighborhood hyperlink is: https://discord.com/invite/cgCFFjj.

Prepared? In your marks. Get set. GO! 🏃