Exploring Metaverse With Sandbox
By Shubham Joshi
Metaverse, famously known as the future of the internet, is growing at a mind-blowing pace. The hype around the immersive future technology surged after Facebook rebranded as Meta and disclosed its vision for space. However, cryptocurrency developers have been preparing for the metaverse for years.
The gaming industry has recently shifted gears. It has begun to invest resources in projects that make use of blockchain technology. As a result, we’ve seen a shift from a pay-to-play to a play-to-earn model. Metaverse technology is used in these play-to-earn games. One such game is The Sandbox whose first iteration was released as a mobile game in 2012.
What is the Sandbox?
Sandbox is an Ethereum-based play-to-earn game consisting of Defi, blockchain, NFTs in a 3D metaverse world. Sandbox is a game in which players can purchase digital plots of land referred to as LAND and build experiences on top of them to share with other players.
Players can also customize other digital assets using free design tools. Players can also build, own, and monetize their gaming experiences. While the Sandbox will have a persistent and shared online map, it has a similar aesthetic to Microsoft’s blocky character-and-pixel-heavy Minecraft game.
Apart from metaverse, the Sandbox is well known for its mobile gaming hits which include the Sandbox Evolution (2016) and the Sandbox (2011). The two games have produced over 40 million downloads combined.
How Does Sandbox Work?
The following five types of tokens power the Sandbox gaming environment:
SAND: This is the in-game money utilized in the Sandbox gaming community.
LANDS: Land symbolizes the space where players can interact and build experiences.
ASSETS: The gamers developed these NFT voxel models. Later, in the Sandbox Marketplace, these assets can be traded.
GEMS: ERC-20 tokens called gems are what players use for purchasing items in the game. They are also burnt to give attributes to assets.
CATALYSTS: These ERC 20 tokens are burned to create assets.
However, Sandbox protects the privacy of an artist’s work. It attempts to stop letting people view the artwork before it is produced. Once an asset is minted, it is stored on IPFS so that it can be publicly traded. As such the Sandbox architecture consists of the following:
- Voxel editors are used by creators to produce objects. They then use a browser to upload these files.
- Metamask serves as a bridge between users and the Ethereum network.
- A browser that connects users to a Sandbox server and smart contracts for interaction.
- Sandbox server that is hosted on AWS that supports the backend.
- Finally, once the transaction has been verified, the item is then made available on the IPFS network.
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