Today we would like to tell you about the AMA session with our friends from SandBox. The AMA took place on October 29 and our guests were Sébastien Borget (COO and Co-founder), Amy and Joseph Madding.
The total reward pool was 800$ and was divided into three parts. In this AMA Recap we will try to summarize some of the most interesting points for you.
PART 1, INTRODUCTION AND COMMUNITY QUESTIONS
Mary | Satoshi Club: Hello, Satoshi Club! We are happy to announce our AMA session with Sandbox! Welcome to Satoshi Club.
Sebastien | Sandbox.game: Hi everyone. Nice to meet you!
Mary | Satoshi Club: Please, could you introduce yourself and tell us how did you start with Sandbox.
Sebastien | Sandbox.game:
My name is Sébastien Borget, I am the COO, co-founder of The Sandbox (http://sandbox.game).
I’m 35 years old and this is my 4th company, the 3 previous ones have been acquired. I was involved in peer-to-peer technology, mobile gaming and cloud media streaming.
Then at the end of 2017, we have been interested in blockchain technology and especially NFTs, and we found combining it with the User-Generated Content made by the Sandbox players would be the perfect match. I am also the president of the Blockchain Game Alliance, a non-profit organization with 150+ members from the blockchain & gaming industry. (www.blockchaingamealliance.org)
Mary | Satoshi Club: Nice to see you. You have amazing background 😀 We like NFTs and games also and our community is excited to see your answers for their questions. 😀
Q1 from Telegram User @aldrinkira
As a gamer, what are the famous games in sandbox that I can play? (can you recommend some?)
Sebastien | Sandbox.game: We have announced the first games made by the teams and indies who have been selected into our Game Makers Fund, we have 17 games already announced, you can find some of them in the following twitter thread: https://twitter.com/TheSandboxGame/status/1315650070403059713?s=20
https://gamemakersandbox.substack.com/p/game-maker-creations-f6b – https://youtu.be/dWa9coxNrK4
https://gamemakersandbox.substack.com/p/game-maker-creations-de6
https://gamemakersandbox.substack.com/p/game-maker-creations-412
https://gamemakersandbox.substack.com/p/game-maker-creations-0b2
D. | Satoshi Club: Great! 👍 your games only for PC?
Sebastien | Sandbox.game: At the moment it is available for PC and MAC, we haven’t yet launched for players, the public beta is scheduled for December.
In THe Sandbox platform, we have launched several products in Alpha or Beta already.
The Sandbox metaverse invites players and creators to
- Make NFTs with VoxEdit #Voxels
- Sell and Trade them on our #Marketplace
- Create fun games with our #GameMaker
- Play, Stake & Earn $SAND #Crypto
- Play & Create with huge IPs and Brands
The Sandbox is an ecosystem for Players and Creators, consisting of three main components: a Voxel Editor (named “VoxEdit”), a Marketplace, and the Game itself.
These 3 main components are:
– First VOXEDIT: it is a 3D modeling and animating package that allows users to create and animate 3D objects such as people, animals, foliage, and tools. = our NFT maker
– Then the MARKETPLACE: it allows users to upload, publish, and sell their ASSETS made in VoxEdit, as Non-Fungible Tokens (Both ERC-721 and ERC-1155 tokens).
– And finally the GAME MAKER: it allows players to build 3D games for free. With the help of pre-assigned behaviors and visual settings, no coding knowledge is required.
So the only missing part now is the Game Client part. You can already make your avatar and join on http://avatar.sandbox.game
Joseph madding: Later in our development we will be focusing on adding in Mobile to expand the player base, and Consoles as well! Have a look at our roadmap for more details on the release of these platforms: https://www.sandbox.game/en/roadmap/
Q2 from Telegram user @PaoloMonte87
I’ve read that I can create my own games and assets via the tools you provide and share them to other players on the SandBox Universe and even profit from the asset sale! Do I need to know how to code to use these tools and, if so, which programming languages do I need to know?
Sebastien | Sandbox.game: You’ve read right 🙂 The promise of The Sandbox platform is indeed to empower players & creators through the use of NFTs and blockchain technology, so you truly own your creations and can indeed sell them, trade them, exchange them with others users and also on the marketplace or other marketplace. One of The Sandbox unique strengths is indeed our focus on gaming – this is the main background of our team, where we have the most expertise and a key differentiator with other decentralized virtual worlds.
Mary | Satoshi Club: You have everything in one place 😃
Sebastien | Sandbox.game: Our tools enable us to create games and all sorts of experiences without any programming knowledge, it’s all drag and drop — no code!
Amy: That’s the true beauty of our product, everyone can use it with no coding knowledge, even your little one 😉
D. | Satoshi Club: Do i have to download some soft from your site to able to make those NFTs?
Amy: Yes VoxEdit our 3D modelor and animator software https://www.voxedit.io/#/en/ and the Game Maker https://gamemaker.sandbox.game/#/en/a to create your first game experience.
Mary | Satoshi Club: What else i will need? Do i need to have some Sand tokens to use this tools?
Amy: Both of these are completely free to use! No in-app purchases of any sorts but do note that to mint your ASSETs (to put them on sale on the marketplace) you’ll need to own some $SAND and be a LAND owner to publish your game experiences – or rent a LAND from one at least.
Sebastien | Sandbox.game: Owning SAND and using SAND tokens will allow you to interact with the platform in various ways.
$SAND is now listed on Binance, Huobi, Poloniex, Upbit, Crypto.com, WazirX, WBF, Latoken, TokoCrypto and MXC and it ranks in Top 200-250 tokens on CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko.
$SAND will enable players to create, play, own, govern, trade and earn within The Sandbox virtual world gaming platform. It is the ERC-20 token that will be used all across The Sandbox metaverse.
$SAND tokens have the following utility on The Sandbox platform:
1/ Medium of exchange: Players can potentially collect SAND through gameplay, and subsequently spend $SAND to play games, purchase equipment, or customize Avatar characters. Creators can spend SAND to acquire ASSETS and LAND. Artists can spend SAND to upload ASSETS to the Marketplace and buy GEMs for defining item rarity.
2/ Governance: $SAND allows holders to participate in governance decisions. SAND owners can vote themselves or delegate voting rights to other players of their choice.
3/ Staking: Users can stake $SAND tokens to earn rewards, as well as GEMs and CATALYSTs for ASSETS creation.
And of course, users can earn $SAND by participating in the platform. Every user contributes to value of our ecosystem.
How can you earn $SAND by creating and playing?
- Selling ASSETS: Users can create and sell ASSETS as NFTs on the marketplace
- Owning a LAND: Buy a LAND in one of the LAND sales. Players can then either rent them or populate them with content to increase the LAND’s value.
- Building Games on the Game Maker: Creators can build and monetize games using the Game Maker on the LANDs that are owned by players.
- Playing and participating in the game: In the Game, not only can creators profit from their creations, players can play-to-earn by collecting resources, rewards, and tokens.
Q3 from Telegram user @Karasakall
I am excited about the many partnerships with Sandbox. There are several well-known game developers like Atari and Paladin Studio. Will the games run on your platform?
Amy: To date, The Sandbox team has secured over 60 partnerships from major brands such as Atari, Care Bears and Shaun the Sheep and award-winning mobile game studios. Partnerships include top decentralized games such as MyCryptoHeroes, Axie Infinity, and industry partners such as Matic, MakerDao, Klaytn, OpenSea, Bitski, Dapp.com, and DappRadar. Some of these partners will recreate games from their renowned IPs such as ATARI with their games Roller Coaster Tycoon, Asteroids and Pong that will populate several ESTATEs across the metaverse they will also create a theme-park like universe based on a variety of their game titles.
Shaun the Sheep will build a new version of their Mossy Bottom Farm as well faithful renditions of the Cryptokitties identity. Others will create unique ecosystem that our communities could bond over like Sandbox Networks the second largest MCN company in Korea, racing games (Battle Racers, Axie Infinity), or simply work towards improving decentralized exchanges together (MakerDAO, Metamask, Matic, OpenSea, DMarket, Opera, Gitcoin or Status.)
And….. last but not least we can also count on partners like Square Enix (with their valuable portfolio of IP, including: FINAL FANTASY, DRAGON QUEST, TOMB RAIDER and many others) that participated in an investment round into The Sandbox last year.
Sebastien | Sandbox.game: On these LANDS, a 3D voxelized version of the forest home of the Smurfs, Smurf Village, will be made available for players to explore when The Sandbox publicly launches later this year, complete with Smurfs-themed environment, attractions, games, and buildings with which to interact. Players will be able to play and create games with their favorite Smurf characters such as Smurfette, Papa Smurf, Azrael, or Brainy Smurf. Furthermore, IMPS and The Sandbox have the right to produce and distribute Smurfs-inspired collectible in-game ASSETS for game creators to use in their own games, tokenized on the blockchain as non-fungible tokens (NFTs).
Q4 from Telegram user @beratToker
Why do we need a blockchain for Sandbox? We already know that games like Fortnite has marketplaces where people can trade different items/staff? Why you need a blockchain infrastructure in your case?
Joseph Madding: Great question! Blockchain allows users to have true digital ownership. 😀
Our multiple ERC technologies will give true ownership of your assets to you as a game designer or collector. This appeals to players and creators alike. When we add in our free Game Maker, VoxEdit asset creation tool, and the Marketplace, we build an amazing creative pipeline for our players to become our creators, and for creators to reach an audience that is highly engaged with and interested in NFTs. With The Sandbox ecosystem, players can see true ownership, scarcity, and monetization value as easily as a developer can see the potential. Combine this with the popularity of Voxel games and we see a bright future!
The beauty of the Blockchain, and NFTs is that you can know that you bought Smurf #20, and you can always verify that it was the 20th Smurf NFT created. If you ever sell or transfer your Smurf #20, you can see who owns it later if you want to try to purchase it again! Of course we can see how this is advantageous to any creators who want to create new unique assets, as they can Mint NFTs in limited quantity with the same advantage of traceability. 🙂
Sebastien | Sandbox.game:
We’ve been living and playing games that are just centralized walled gardens our whole life, all the contents there is virtual, perishable, consumable, never truly yours. You may thinkg this is right because it is the only model you have grown up accustomed to, but it doesn’t mean there can’t be a better model where players own and participate to the economy of the game through its ownership. That’s where we are really disrupting our competitors Minecraft and Roblox and offering a new USP.
https://t.me/Satoshi_club/366954
Mary | Satoshi Club: Do you think that a lot of gamers really care about ownerships? I am really interested if you made some polls to know their opinions?
Joseph Madding: As a small sample size, my daughter and all of her friends are ready to make the transition away from Roblox into The Sandbox because – as she says – when you buy “Robux”, you can’t do anything with the token if you have extra, and you can’t sell the things you buy back for Robux. With SAND and NFTs, we change how gamers buy, sell, and own assets forever.
Q5 from Telegram user @kocamanOmer
Is the Sandbox platform only used for gaming? Are there any other areas where you think sandbox tools would be used?
Joseph Madding: One great example of how you can use our tools that isn’t gaming – Art Showcases. Users have requested ways to showcase animated GIF images in-game, as well as JPG and MP4, and we will have these features available. Of course you can showcase your VoxEdit NFT arts as well.
Mary | Satoshi Club: Btw, you also have liquidity mining on your platform now) right?
Joseph Madding: Right now we have a liquidity mining program available at staking.sandbox.game for those who have invested in the Uniswap SAND-ETH Liquidity Pool, yes. 🙂
This is a special event Liquidity Mining stake, designed to reward our early adopters. We will have Staking available with GEM and Catalyst rewards coming in the future. 🙂
Q6 from Telegram user @mundarain
I have read that SandBox uses DAO mechanisms for its governance system, how do these DAO mechanisms work within your governance system and what power do they give to its participants?
Sebastien | Sandbox.game: Yes that is right, we want SAND to be a governance token and will put in place a DAO to enable SAND holders to participate and vote in future decisions of the platform. Our goal within the next 5 years is that $SAND will be owned 100% by players, and us as the platform we will continue developing services for the community, while owning 0%.
Governance will progressively remove the Control from our Company towards the community based on token holding.The Community of $SAND holders will be able to participate to Governance decisions of the platform, using a DAO structure, where they can exercise voting rights on key elements. $SAND owners will be allowed to vote themselves or delegate their voting rights to other players of their choice and it is an important point on governance.
PART 2, TELEGRAM COMMUNITY LIVE QUESTIONS
The chat was open for 80 seconds; a lot of questions were posted by Satoshi Club community. Our guests chose some of them.
Q1 from Telegram User @Jmagsss
Can the games be available on mobiles?
Sebastien | Sandbox.game: Mobile is on our Roadmap for 2021. We want to enable to play games also on smartphones and tablets.
Q2 from Telegram User @KevSalom
I’m curious, being Sandbox a project that already has so much authority in the market, and that has already exceeded 70 million downloads since 2018, why do you carry out activities like this AMA? Generally it is done by new projects, I understand.
Joseph Madding: The Sandbox, in its current version is the first on-chain game and game development platform from our team. In the past, we’ve seen loads of success with The Sandbox: Evolution and other titles on mobile, and we will leverage our experience to bring you a great platform!
Also, we’re never finished expanding, and we love our community! In the coming years, we want to continue to show the world why we’re a great company. Because of our growth mindset, all of our users and community developers will always have a fresh new set of eyes looking at their content. 🙂
Q3 from Telegram User @zaferce
Sandbox announced a partnership with the Mobox Platform and ChainZ Arena. Under this partnership, how will Mobox participate in the Sandbox ecosystem and what are the details of the partnership?
Sebastien | Sandbox.game: Thanks for following our recent news! Mobox will own an ESTATE on The Sandbox platform. Mobox will also be accepting our $SAND token on their multicurrency platform.
Q4 from Telegram User @lopyou01
How do you introduce the blockchain world to gamers? while gamers are blind to the blockchain world.
Sebastien | Sandbox.game: We are creating an appealing gaming metaverse that aims at attracting all types of people: young & old players, casual & pro gamers, newbie creators & professional artists. Making a game that is fun, visually appealing and has good mechanics so you want to stay and keep playing it for a long time is our priority.
Players will not come for the technology, but for the fun and the experience. Then they can benefit from the advantages offered by our decentralized model, collecting tokens, earning rewards and being able to trade game items, their creations, lands etc
Q5 from Telegram User @friendwithoutr
Serious rate of children at an early age are in the Game World. Sometimes we see that children lost their lives due to this sector. Do you think that you are trying to prevent the negative impact of game industry on children? (If yes, how? If no, why?)
Joseph Madding: The Sandbox is a unique experience. Within the Metaverse, thanks to the Marketplace and our use of Blockchain technology, we are more than a game. Gamers can create art with VoxEdit. Those artists can mint their art into NFT assets and sell those assets for SAND. This SAND can be traded for USD. Now the young gamer is an entrepreneur! Another gamer could come to the Metaverse to play, then create a game and publish it on LAND and charge for access or cosmetics. Now the gamer has become a game developer, very easily!
Q6 from Telegram User @zaferce
Sandbox announced a partnership with fiat infrastructure provider Simplex. Can we buy SAND tokens with credit or debit cards within the framework of this partnership? How do you evaluate the partnership?
Amy: You will indeed be able to purchase our $SAND token via this partnership. This helps our mainstream community by easening the adoption process once more. It is one of the latest step we took towards that goal.
Q7 from Telegram User @youfig
How do you plan on getting your platform adopted and been put to use in daily use by gamers?
Sebastien | Sandbox.game: Then, besides make a great game – we have a clear growth strategy, based on:
- Partnering with content companies to onboard well-known IPs.
- Conducting LAND token sales to promote the generation of user-created content.
- Conducting AMAs to educate the community.
- Constantly engaging with the public on social media channels.
- Marketing and User Acquisition to gamers, which we have experience with since we have been 8. years in the industry of games.
Through the brands and their fans, we can reach mainstream gamers and creators through their favorite brands. Bring leading gaming Brands & IPs and leverage on those key brands building great experiences as well as trust.
Q8 from Telegram User @Alison_m2000
Sandbox Global project or not? I’m from South Africa so, Can I join your platform? please explain. I have most Friends for incited for your project…
Joseph Madding:The Sandbox is absolutely a Global project. We have servers for multiplayer connectivity on multiple continents and we’re expanding every day. 🙂
Q9 from Telegram User @Mohitku1
What is your thought on NFT market? Can we sell Sandbox NFT?
Sebastien | Sandbox.game: We’re proud to be a strong advocate for NFTs and one of the pionneers in the space. And seeing NFT market now growing to over $1M worth of NFTs traded per day, with The Sanbdox among the top projects in the top 5-10 most traded NFTs.
Q10 from Telegram User @BlancaSdF
Sebastien | Sandbox.game: Yes of course, but it goes beyond just influencers.
Q11 from Telegram User @konditer_rolex
I have a Binance account for a long time and am familiar with the Sand token. But it seems to me that the target audience of your platform is still not traders. Is it possible to buy a token inside your platform using credit cards? Or other ways of acquiring resources for people who are not familiar with cryptocurrencies?
Sebastien | Sandbox.game: Yes we can now! We have announced last week a partnership with Simplex allowing users to make purchases of SAND with a credit card. https://medium.com/sandbox-game/announcing-simplex-partners-with-the-sandbox-to-enable-global-purchases-of-sand-token-3e29d2f2c10f
PART 3, QUIZ AND INFO
As usual, for the third part, Satoshi Club Team asked the chat 4 questions about Sandbox. A link to a Quiz form were sent into the chat. Participants had 10 minutes to answer. 400$ were distributed between the winners.
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