You can turn this into profit by playing The Sandbox, definitely the most amazing game in its category, or you can make a good profit by selling the assets you create on the market.
Web3 is when you ape a Web2 concept (usually a user-generated content-driven platform) and staple NFTs and Crypto to it. It's a clunky monetization system in search of a concept it can glom onto like micro-purchases did to games. Pray the parasite never finds a compatible host.
@@aidanwarren4980 indeed they ape it. (idk what ape means, I just pictured nft monkey. Btw I have nothing to do with NFTs lol. I just had the image in my head.)
The stuff with the email is so bad it’s almost disturbing. It doesn’t matter if the Sandbox was literally the best game ever, I would never download a game that turned my inbox into a scammy hellhole. The things Jauwn is willing to do for us.
There are so many people complaining about their emails / the fact that you can't delete accounts. I thought that was like illegal under GDPR regulations, no?
@@jauwn According to what I've read, technically, no, so long as the service is still providing you a service that you are, in return, paying for. In this case, since you're not paying anything, there is no reason why you can't delete said account. Alternatively, if they don't release the game in the EU, then they don't need to comply with GDPR regulations either. But since I'm sure they allow from the EU, it might be worth filing a complaint against them. GDPR has killed better games then them.
Like this comment if you hate getting ads for The Sandbox. I've never seen them, since I use AdBlock, but clearly a lot of people have seen them on my videos since I got so many comments!
it's ironic, because i recently re-watched your old video on the Sandbox, and not even a week later almost every single ad i got on youtube was the sandbox ad, for 3 consecutive days, maybe i was getting them before but i realy never pay attention to ads so i can't tell.
The Sandbox requires a physics glitch exploit for a projectile. The Atari 2600 had native support for five basic objects at a time: two players, two missiles, and one ball. The Sandbox is less technologically advanced than the Atari 2600.
@@oliver_twistor My favourite thing is when they say "the blockchain is better because it can do X which you can't in regular games" Then you see they can in fact do that, like their whole things about "owning your assets" And that the blockchain will let you transfer items? Guess who's already doing that with csgo without the use of crypto?
@@artsyscrub3226 Yep! Not only can these things be done without crypto; they can be done cheaper, faster and with less problems without it. It's baffling why cryptobros keep hammering on with those tired and easily countered arguments. Have they even played a game before?
Roblox loads so fast dude I never really played it before but I jumped around to a bunch of games while getting footage for this video and each one never took more than 30 seconds
@@danyal_assihow many times did you comment this? nobody cares and nobody knows what you're on about. this guy pretty much just covers crypto games. so uh ya? sorry your crypto game sucks, dude. The UA-camr in this video is a good dude
Just makes me think of my old coworker bragging to me about how he just made 50$ on an NFT when I asked how much he got it for. He said it was like 5k but it was ok because he traded for another NFT that some celebrity owned too and the price was going to go sky high for that. A week later he opened a scam email and lost his celebrity NFT.
RIP. I couldn't imagine buying a digital item/picture/thing for 5k, I just don't get it and I used to buy and sell Bitcoin back when the price fluctuated from like $150-300 USD. At least with that I could spend the extra Bitcoin I made on * Illegal items * and more * illegal items * wasn't a bad thing.
@@Gatorade69To be honest, I never felt bad to the cryptobros or enefteebros. They should've known it was never a good investment to begin with. It's all nothing but a Ponzi's pyramid.
'Eneftee' was never a good investment to begin with. It's all just some cheap JPEGs covering the Ponzi's pyramid inside it. I remember I told someone that 'eneftee' is not a good thing, but when they started to say 'enjoy being poor' or 'you're about to missing it out', I knew that I would dubbed those people as 'enefteebros' that should never be trusted. I wonder what are they doing now after that insane market crash.
i like how they call roblox studio "limiting" and "janky" while the developers on sandbox have to look for workarounds to make their own type of games...
I never made a Roblox game myself despite my account's age. The times I tried, I rememebr that you start with nothing but a skybox and a flat baseplat. The fact that games start with that and become some crazy shit is pretty fascinating and far away from "limiting" to me
@@HomekittyL2 Yeah that's the most bs claim I've ever heard about Roblox, the devs litterally protect child predators on a regular basis but your problems is the "limits" roblox has? I'd like them to play a roblox horror map those things are detailed to the max way more than the sandbox offers!
@@artsyscrub3226 the child predator topic isn’t relevant because it wasn’t brought up, also why did you imply abt the end that this guy was saying the sandbox is better? He didn’t.
I'm a developer in Roblox and honestly everything shown in the video is so hilariously different that if you removed any mention of Roblox or Minecraft I would've never considered this as anything remotely similar to a competitor The editor interface looks so basic and rudimentary that I can tell even if you got the hang of it you'd still face constant annoyances when trying to do anything; looking at some tutorials the camera movement seems to be a weird mesh between modelling and game engine softwares making it really confusing I really enjoyed this video, for once I regret having an adblocker as I'd have loved seeing those weird advertisements
The ads for the sandbox is just the game maker footage with text like "Make a game without writing a single line of code" in a corner with some music playing
The og one also doesnt work on android anymore since it crashes on newer android versions, no idea about the sequel, since I stopped playing it after they paywalled a lot of elements
The most ironic thing is that one of their ads feature a character with a gun. *even though guns are impossible to implement* because of the lack of a ranged weapon system.....
Lying is an inherent part of crypto it seems. They lie blatantly to each other and themselves, so why wouldn't they lie to the people they are trying to scam.
Roblox is good, i play it a lot, but there is a problem with avatars. Of course, every one of those is unique in their own sense, but here are three things that i see when i play catalog avatar creator: 1. R63 avatars with comically large thighs/chests 2. Avatars that are straight up discriminating 3. Avatars made of items that can get roblox into a copyright problem like what happened with the audios creator market Saw a squad of mfs dress up like KKK members
Me rolling up to everyone who bought land in the metaverse: I’ve got some ocean-front property in Arizona. If you buy that I’ll throw the Golden Gate free!
I used to play the original sandbox. It wasnt anything special, but a fun little powdergame type thing. Its a shame that its used for a shitty nft game nowadays. Whatever does happen lets hope the og sticks around
same here. when i discovered this channel & video about the sandbox, i was like "wait a minute, it's not the mobile game from my childhood, is it?!" but alas, it was :'c
There’s an idea forming in my head that somewhere a crypto bro has a kid that is only allowed to play games like sandbox and is trying to brainwash them into believing that this is the future gaming…
Wait wtf I KNOW Niar He was ok at PVP, but never could break into pro iirc. He would /yell in SW to dual anybody available instead of going into arena or bgs. if its the same guy, which shoot it likely is, he uploaded to youtube alot and won roughly 50% of his duels with pros. We ended up grabbing like, four other rogues because he wasnt exceptional and kind of weird
I can only imagine this Niar guy as the griefer from the South Park WoW episode. Dude, you're not Totalbiscuit going from WoW radio to an internet icon. You're just some guy.
@@planescaped We are all just some guy. Just as totalbiscuit is just some guy. You are just some guy as well, you can be your own Niar if you are confident and true. You do not have to sell your signature or NFT's if you do not glorify yourself as much as them though.
that line made me think of youtuber Any Austin whose current main content is doing employment surveys of video game cities. he would census a beehive and turn it into a video.
love how roblox started out as a basic physics engine and grew overnight to a massive corporation yet sandbox started out with millions in funding and it died the millisecond 2021 ended
@@jauwn cool thing is roblox has games in the platform for ALL ages, from copy and paste games like Brookhaven to real brutal games like Centaura or cool permadeath RPGs like Deepwoken or Rogue Lineage.
@@hellofellowbotsss roblox pays for your server fees, and has multiplayer support built-in, they PAY FOR YOUR SERVERS, and in return request a cut of of your revenue, they dont ask for money if you dont make money but thye still give you money. it is also the game engine with the best community and the best gui, also has a lot more tutorials than others, and uses lua which is easy to learn, also lets you change engine properties with code. LİTERALLY THE BEST GAME ENGINE, NO COMPETİTİON.
I almost ended up having an internship for a company that wanted me to work on their sanbox vr bar. I was very desperate as the internship was for college, thankfully someone else came through but man. This video made me so thankful that I never had to touch this cursed platform.
They called me for an interview for a GameDesign job. It is REALLY safe to say that at least the interview team didnt know shit about what they were doing
I talked to a couple of people who were contractors for them. Seemed like nobody there really cared about the game and was just phoning it in for a paycheck
As an amateur game dev on Roblox, I will say that Roblox can be kinda...strict with what's allowed on the platform, I guess? Sometimes fleshing out a specific vision can be an uphill battle with all of their very unspecific guidelines and odd decisions. But that can only be an issue when that kind of leeway in terms of creativity is given to the creator in the first place. Also I have experienced what I can only describe as interactive art in some Roblox games. There are so many talented and phenomenal people on the site who create masterpieces that can even rival triple-A games in my personal opinion. So while I have my specific gripes with Roblox, I would rather stay there than move to Shill City. also what's the song at the glorified billboard chapter, that would be a perfect song to add to my game's bgm playlist
Yeah, and at least Roblox teaches you valuable skills that you could transfer to another platform. And the song is Aquatic Ambience from Donkey Kong Country
I've been playing roblox on and off since 2014 and this really reminds me of 2014 roblox games, the dialogue option menus, the small platformers, the simple AI, the janky collisions... But at least there was some actual games being made around that time on roblox
these games are worse than what they had on zx spectrum 40 years ago. level editors from games 20 years older put this "engine" to shame. the platform is idiotic in nature. only the genius self-made entrepreneurs of private education and ivy league could see the groundbreaking *future* of everything in this.
@@genericgoosereturns What is old is new again. Back then there were a glut of Trash-tier games where everyone and their mother were jumping on a trend to make money more than out of any passion to create. It crashed the video game industry back then, but people fortunately don't care enough about crypto scam games to let them do that again.
0:05 this guy advertises roblox exploits in very shady ways often including adware or many redirects in the process. He also has an exploit which i believe has been confirmed to be a crypto miner (or at least it at some point contained one)
Not a roblox dev, but a roblox vet, I've been playing the game for well over a decade now, grew up on it, and I can say with 100% certainty I would rather be kicked in the nuts, full force, everyday for a month than even get close to Sandbox.
As someone who played Roblox all the way back in 2008 as a snot-nosed kid, I can confidently say that even back then it blew what Sandbox is now out of the water. Some random 16 year old back then could create a pirate ship duel game where all players on both crews could do all kinds of stuff like steer, shoot cannons, board the other ship, and blow up their gunpowder barrels. The damage was simulated using Roblox's physics engine, which while janky, made it unique, as holes blown into your ship were like actual real holes that affected structural integrity and could be used as entry ways by the enemy team.
Adding to the brand deals: in Dan Olson's video, he mentions that brand deals in metaverse are more often than not part of advertiser deal package. Basically, advertisers bought plots en masse then packaged it with other deals when they realize its worth nothing.
Not only is it cheaper to publish a game on Roblox than to get a land NFT, it's cheaper to publish a game on Steam ($100). And unlike The Sandbox, Steam actually has a playerbase.
Steam isn't a fair comparison since Sandbox is an engine whereas steam is only a marketplace. Probably harder to make a source game than this crap but it'll be 100x better
Hey, so I've been a roblox dev for the last 4 years, the game maker engine nowadays is even better than it was when I started deving for fun (Roblox is what sparked that game developer love in my heart, and it has shaped my life entirely, it's because of it that I began gaining such a love for making games) and this sandbox is not even a joke, because a joke would be funny. (Although I do suppose seeing dumb corporations waste money on virtual land is pretty funny) Even with it's limitations and controversies, roblox is still not even comparable to Sandbox, roblox allows for such a freedom in it's game engine that makes many games and styles be possible, all for free. Tower defense, Horror, Role-playing games, FPS games, and anything in between that the community can make. The front page of the Roblox website has only a few games that are popular, but if you dig Enough, you'll find a huge amount of loyal roblox fans who'll push the engine to it's absolute limits and go even further. Cars and tanks with working suspension, aerodynamics systems for airplanes and helicopters, realistic models and textures, everything. Sandbox's level designer is barely functional, and I'm surprised some people actually managed to make a functioning game out of it, it'll never be able to be anything close to Roblox's Like I said before, Roblox is what helped spark the developer inside me, and I'm sure it has done the same thing for many other devs in the Roblox community, even those who have moved on from the game. I can't state enough how much of a gap there is between the Sandbox and Roblox. It's not even like a cliff wide gap, or an ocean wide gap, it's like Roblox is on Earth and the sandbox is in a whole different solar system. TLDR; The sandbox sucks, but you didn't need me to tell you that did you?
What gets me about the Sandbox is that it's built in Unity, so it's trying to be a game engine inside another game engine which inherently runs you into two sets of restrictions. Even if you are able to push the limits of the Sandbox's level maker it's still walled in by Unity's limits, which leave very little avenues for real creativity. It's a bit like being told you can create an entire living space however you like, but you're restricted to the spare bedroom of an already built house. The whole metaverse/Web3 adventure really does highlight just how skewed the corporate world's vision of post-pandemic society was in 2021, where everyone was supposed to have fully embraced virtual socialization and abandoned real world gatherings even after it was safe to do so again. All the attempts to cash in on every aspect of it ultimately fell flat in the most hilarious ways.
@@NorthStarBlue1web3 reminds me of so many drunken ideas i get from people at bars when I tell them I'm a developer. None of it is any good and they swear they'll pay me more than my salary but they never follow up. Only the web3 guys drink beer worth my mortgage and can burn money making whatever stupid idea that comes to their heads
As someone who mainly plays roblox tower defense games, yeah this is bad. The sandbox cannot compare to roblox, as games like tower battles, critical tower defense, and tower defense sim, simply blow it out of the water, oh yeah and while bee swarm sim isnt a td game, its still wayy better
I just want to say I appreciate the advice you have sprinkled into your videos over all this time. It's helped me grow as a person as well as entertain me.Remember when you suggested that someone would be better off to "take the loss and just walk away, that time could be better spent learning a skill"? Well I did that, I make my own content now and I finally sold all my shares in GameStop. Thank you for being the push I needed to finally walk away and move on with my life. I'm much happier now and I have new friends I can meme along with who aren't obsessed with the stock market or Ryan Cohen.
Hell yeah! These are all hard lessons I've had to learn myself, and the things I have wished others told me before. Life is too short to spend it waiting around for something too happen.
@@Gatorade69 I made a little money in the squeeze. The remaining shares I kept in an effort to fight back. For awhile I really did believe that I was doing something impactful by holding them. I sold those shares for a bit of a loss so the whole thing was kind of a wash in the end. The more important take away was the lessons I learned.
@@TheReignOfRaining That's how they get you, they pretend its great for the poor when really it's just great for the rich, they tell you lies about how you holding the stock will make it go up But in reality it's all to line the pockets of the already rich, you are not the first and won't be the last, i just wish they were more honest about how similar it is to gambling
What is the point of a virtual concert if you can’t feel the live music around you, see your favorite musicians in person even if from afar, and also appreciate the social aspects? A virtual concert doesn’t sound any better than watching a music video on UA-cam. Though maybe there’s something I don’t understand
Hey I remember the original mobile game known as The Sandbox! But that game was genuinely fun and had plenty of user generated "worlds" (aka just screens of all sorts of available materials the game had to offer, from literal music made with electricity to art and some minigames or experiences). And I went to look for it only to see it no longer appears on the GooglePlay store nor in my years long library of games. :( So many genuinely good mobile games have died with the advent of the toxicity of microtransactions, I will forever mourn the loss of them, and now I got to include a genuinely good god-sim to this list.
I remember that game too. It had a sequel and I enjoyed both the sequel and the original but the sequel had WAY too many microtransactions and locked away features. Also you could still get it by googling up a website for you to download it.
It's, i have seen a bunch of their ads consecutively, it was even translated to my language, and still the game is empty even pumping soo much money on ads lol
It’s funny seeing companies talk about needing to raise their prices and then you turn around and see they’re using that same money to throw in a bucket and light on fire by trying to get in on the world’s most overcomplicated version of the “Million dollar homepage”
I think it has to due to, well stock/share holders. On on hand you most likley have your boring old "get profit up more than last quarter or else" types and possibly the new "WE *NEED* to get on this thing my cousin's uncle's brother's sister-in-law says will BECOME huge in now" types, which leads accompanies to trash bajiions in dollars in worthless "pet" projects or else, _but_ also having to well make money.
game devs: "we have to raise prices because making games has become more expensive" also game devs: cuts corners and reduces quality to make more money and releases games unfinished
@@HappyBeezerStudios it’s solutions to two different problems. Both aren’t ideal. Budgets have inflated an ungodly amount, so they use their excessive spending as a way to justify price increases. The cuts are for business quarters, drop your teams so you can go “Look we slashed operating expenses by X amount which will net us Y amount more profit next quarter!” Or in stuff like Ubisofts case: “Hey we got the money from that government contract for opening a studio in their country. So we closed it and look how much we made you cause of it!” But it also what fuels the design by committee style of development. Teams are too big to have meaningful individual impacts and each project has devs rebuilding their teams as not many people are there for multiple projects.
The workaround to fire a projectile in Sandbox is one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard, hahah. One sentence says so much about the Hell you are signing up for by diving into this system
It's funny how hard it is to create a projectile, since even if you're coding a game engine from scratch, a projectile attack is far easier to program than a sword
A dude burned half a million fucking dollars to buy a hyperlink next to Spoon Dogg’s hyperlink… the shit people will waste life changing money on goddamn
Just as a cherry on top as proof of how little they care about their product for anything other than making money: at 3:10 in the 'Agency Partners' thing, Steve Aoki is literally listed twice, meaning they never proofread it.
Learning that this is related to the original Sandbox on mobile devices is depressing. I grew up playing that and remember that, while it did have some MTX, it was a fun game to play around in with the more kid friendly features. Similar to like, the pixel sand games and stuff. But I guess that's changed.
Throughout the video I kept thinking: "It's an insult to have this thing share the same name with the mobile game, which was a fun small god-simulator type of game." Turns out it IS the same brand. Some money-grubbing motherfucker just had to buy out the brand to make this abomination and piss on my childhood memories lol.
As someone with a lot of roblox gametime since I was a kid; although it's become corporate and profit driven, there's an immense amount of well crafted, custom-code heavy games. Boxing, Dodgeball, PayDay, Restaurant, Obstacle course, etc. There's so many variation of games available on Roblox, and it's genuinely amazing to see developers to figure these things out. Sandbox was made from a corporate standpoint from the get-go. There is no passion, only the drive to make money. Anyone who tries to convince you that Sandbox is gonna be a 'roblox slayer' is either unknowledgable or just trying to pull the wool over your eyes.
@@PhoebeTheFairy56and you can push buttons by pushing buttons and use custom prompts to buy stuff Even if declining in the pet shop means glitching all the other prompt
@@jauwn Your editing style has improved so much, and your sassy, passive-aggressive tone towards these piece of shit games is as funny as ever. Also, [BROKEN LINK]
@@jauwn Can't wait until the inevitable point in your career when you become the very monster you were fighting and start accepting sponsorships from RAID and other shady skinner-boxes
@@imveryangryitsnotbutter projection isn't cute, not everyone is a sell out also, pretty weird to be this excited for someone's tipping point, touch grass
Yeah i've been getting offers from sponsors for months now, I always turn them down. Not sure why you think I would sell out when I've said multiple times that I'm never taking a sponsor
I immediately felt a red flag when the person proposing the game is Sakpot, one of those popular Roblox exploiters who will proudly give you their custom script injector which will totally not mine crypto behind your back.
I once downloaded sakpot executor to troll kids it was fine at first and suddenly whenever i open the executor my laptop got laggy ah so yeah they are mining bitcoin using your device
let's compare roblox and sandbox with restaurants >you apply to a job with roblox , they let you in the kitchen , there are no utensils , no appliances , nothing , just a bunch of raw metal and wood on the floor , they make you build your utensils and cook any meal you want (as long as its not in the do-not-cook menu) >you apply to a job with the sandbox , they let you in while annoyingly ranting about the roblox restaurant next door , you go into the kitchen and... the only utensils you have are a barely working microwave , a cheap plastic spork and a screen showing crypto value.
I remember playing The Sandbox back in the early 2010s when it was but a humble little mobile game. One of my pixel arts got stolen by some random guy adding their initials to it and then promoted on the official Facebook page. Good times
no it wasn't. the first 3D platformer, at least from a commercial standpoint; would be Jumping Flash on PSX beating the pesky plumber by an entire year, actually
Fun fact, when the rage game "Only up" beame viral among stramers, there was a romhack of SM64 following the same formula, that copy of a copy of a copy attracted more players in 2023 than Sandbox... I'm making that up, but still, I'm sure it's true.
I have youtube premium so I've personally never seen an ad for this but my friends see them so much that they go into a fit of rage everytime they're brought up so I guess they gotta be quite common lmaoooo
Yeah I also have premium so I don't see them either but I opened a window without adblock and within 3 videos I got the dreaded Sandbox ad. They're everywhere
I think true "no code" is different than Blueprints, which are more like visual scripting. But you can build entire games using only blueprints, and plenty of people do that. But I agree, No code engines like Scratch or Construct are kind of a waste of time if you're above the age of 13 because at that point you'd do better just learning how to code, even if it takes a bit longer to get started
I haven't used UE blueprints, but I've heard that it's really good at creating nice C++ code. Back in the day when I started programming, I learned quickly to not touch any sort of code generation tool because they invariably made a complete mess of things one had to go back and clean up oneself, but nowadays tools like UE blueprints create just as good, if not better, code than the average programmer can.
Unreal engine BP basically is visual scripting (visual scripting =/= no code). I am currently learning UE, and I can tell you, the system is AWESOME, easy and flexible. You are still coding, but with visual nodes. No code on the other hand is "add behavior to object, object do thing".
8:16 Correction - The 16 ETH is the volume for that day. There were 11 sales with an average price of 1.457 ETH. While still a massive decrease, it's less by a factor of ~11.
By the way, the UA-camr Sakpot (who starred in the ad visible at the beginning of the video) is mostly known for showcasing third-party script executors made for cheating and griefing in Roblox games. Great choice.
That voxel editor is by far the best thing I've seen to come out of web3 hell. Meanwhile, Factorio is a far better level editor than that game maker. (Not the Factorio map editor. Factorio, the game.)
Once was commissioned to make a map, the editor had zero tooling and couldn't even get something as simple as a random number generator. so we had to spawn a chicken that runs into a random button, gets killed by the button and then activates/deactivates stuff accordingly. it was a mess if you wanted to make anything remotely interesting. even when creating the map you're wondering how users are supposed to "earn sand". genuine confusion all the way to the top. then right before the map going live (a jumping puzzle, a la minecraft) TSB broke jumping and the players flamed us for it. 🥰
@@joppemin wow that sounds horrible but pretty much mirrors my experience trying to figure out any of the tools. They are all borderline useless and if you actually want to make something playable you need to do workarounds on top of workarounds
I just wanted to say that i've been binge watching your videos for a while now, and i have to say your writing, editing and content in general has improved a lot. Keep up the good work, and keep shiting on crypto bros. Also the effort you put in your videos (with all the register here, put your name there, etc...) is incredible, you truly are dedicated to show us how bad theese games are.
Edit: I hope you read this, because after all the time you spend in the horrors of NFT games i figured you need some positivity (or some ad money idk, im trying to give you both)
Jesus H christ on a cross, the guy who has a self made platformer level dedicated to himself is the biggest case of self inflated ego I have ever seen. Like how are you charging that much for log-in screenshots.
Yup you're 100% right. People are always surprised when I livestream and they discover that my pfp is just a zoomed in and distorted picture of my face
Is it wrong the only time i see the "Virtual Land" argument really work was in Second Life? For those who never played it, in second life you can rent land with the L$ (the game's currency). And this rental scaled in cost based on how large of a parcel you wanted, and how much processing power you wanted dedicated to it. So yes you effectively rented server space, and the cost scaled with how popular the area is (note you can just teleport, but large facilities like clubs that drew a lot of users, caused more congestion on the server, thus higher rents to have people spread out). Pretty often you could find people sub leasing the land too. See one person owning a chunk for like a personal house might be kinda costly, so it wasn't uncommon for someone to develop an apartment or neighborhood and then rent out the houses. The result is people could get cheaper houses with more strict limits but had to follow rules of the locale (ie they might enforce dress codes when out on the road, but you were free to do whatever in your house). And from my experience most people got along under these (for instance rent prices stayed manageable) because it was very easy to take your shit and move elsewhere. Also its worth noting you could always cash out your L$ for real money. So if you ran a successful club or store front making custom avatars, clothes and such you could just convert that into money you could use in real life.
Most indie devs despise crypto, so a game jam meant for indie devs partnering with them signaled that they were majorly out of touch. This year they partnered with an AI company that uses stable diffusion, which people also disliked since the dataset uses people’s ip without permission.
When I first saw this video I expected sandbox to at least have some form of coding, not some half baked logic system that could not even give scratch a run for its money. anyways great video.
Similar to the projectiles, there is a workaround you can use. I forget exactly what it was but I think it works by spawning an invisible object and then checking if that object exists. If it exists = true, otherwise false. Horrible, honestly 😂
as someone who makes things in vanilla minecraft w/datapacks, i am intimately familiar with the difference between a system that is limiting, but still incredibly capable, and a system that is just unworkable. and good god, that game "engine" looks awful on every level. youd have more fun, and an easier time, loading up a minecraft world and just messing around with stuff 😵💫
I'm someone who's played Roblox from 2008, all the way to 2018, and I can confidently say that despite how simplistic games were back in 2008, it still had more functions and more varied games compared to The Sandbox, hell, you could make something that shot out a projectile back without incredible jank in 2008. Utterly shocking that a game that claims to be better than Roblox has a hard time beating Roblox during that era in 2024 with vastly more money and foresight.
roblox is a gaming engine that allows for relatively infinite freedom. you can write custom code, import models from both other players and custom made models made in blender and other modeling softwares, make custom GUIs, complex lighting engines, etc etc etc, all while players are allowed to have their own unique characters interacting with the world with real time player interactions where monetizing your game does not take hundreds of hundreds of micro- or macrotransactions. i've played roblox since 2007, and while it does have its flaws, it is a wonderful platform that i cannot seem to give up. it is so full of life and character, and im glad it's stayed alive and relevant for as long as it has. that being said, the sandbox feels like someone came into my house and shit on my bed, shot my dog, handed me a coyote, and said, "i did you a favor. check out this better dog i got you."
uh-huh, and some of the ads are pretty suggestive, too. and because both children AND adults are horny, they instantly download the game. that just makes the scummy factor go way past the line. great job, sandbox, you're a bad company.
The Sandbox is a self-defeating concept. There is no sane reason a game-maker would have a singular map with limited plot sizes you need to purchase except to milk money out of dumb 'investors' this is a game where the NFT aspect actively harms it rather than just being an annoying tac-on
SecondLife is also an interesting one. Buy avatars and assets you never own, rent virtual land from other people or from the owners, virtual labor / jobs, and its own currency with its value based on how much people sell it for
I remember checking it out way back in the day when it was really popular. It was kind of boring so my friend and I just started being trolls but nobody was receptive to our trolling so we left. Only other place besides DeviantArt that was untrollable.
I remember playing the sandbox on mobile. its sad to see how its fallen. I genuinely enjoyed it back then. I would go over to my grandmothers, get a maple-cream-stick and a slushy, and explore the levels and art people had made. As someone who plays Roblox almost weekly, I agree on how it doesn't stand a chance.
When I started seeing ads for the Sandbox, I was worried that they had somehow managed to trick people into playing it. It's such a relief to hear that it's still abandoned and that the cryptobros are just throwing more money into the void, as usual.
As someone who plays roblox from time to time, it’s filled to the brim with a shit load of grindy ass games that all try to squeeze money out of you to speed up said grind, or a copy and paste template game of what’s ever popular at the time. But in the barrel of garbage, there are actual gems and fun experiences to have. You just have to be willing to look for them. From what I’ve seen of your video, the main difference between roblox and sandbox, is that sandbox doesn’t have any hidden gems or diamonds in the rough. Just shit.
Also, the reason there's so many of those grindy games is because of how much easier it is to make a game on roblox. Like, a lower barrier to entry means that there's less to stop bad games from being put out, but also less in the way of the good games too
god the camera in this game hurts to look at, especially in that platforming section. idk if i’m just more used to 2d bc that’s what i’ve been playing lately or if it really is just That Bad. and don’t even get me started on that postprocessing nightmare…
@@jauwnon second watch, i think my problem is with the cave platforming section in that challenge game. the seemingly random zooms and snaps the camera had to do bc of the geometry are throwing me. its weird bc other games like the isometric one are fine, and its not like i haven’t played 3d platformers with arguably worse-behaving cameras (sm64ds, looking at you). maybe the art style has something to do with it? not sure but it’s just. eugh
You know what pisses me off the most? All this wasted, burnt money spent on vanity projects and scams, they could've spent it ANYWHERE, and I mean ANYWHERE else, and it would've come in more handy. The sheer unfathomable amount of money these idiots have torched could've gone to so many things (charity organisations, research groups, what name you) and they spent it on this. This shit that had the writing on the wall the day it was announced.
Wait wait wait. This is the successor to *that* The Sandbox? I used to love that that game (especially when I realized you could just turn on airplane mode to purchase everything in the store for free).
If I had to guess why it's mostly collect-a-thons, it's because that's as far as your average corporation would dare to venture into making a game. My previous company had some stupid metaverse event with a "easter egg hunt" and I can't help but picture middle aged corporate women grinning widely while doing the most basic or minimal?) interactions possible. Basically, don't let corporate work with games, they don't know the meaning of cutting loose.
You can turn this into profit by playing The Sandbox, definitely the most amazing game in its category, or you can make a good profit by selling the assets you create on the market.
which no one will buy...
@@StanislawStanczyk-by4gg When you make perfect beings, it is impossible not to sell them.
@@arapcahikayeler the problem is as stated in the video almost no one 0lays the game
@@StanislawStanczyk-by4gg The sandbox mobile version will be released soon and then the number of players will increase significantly.
@@arapcahikayeler very unlikely since there is only about 500 playable games that aren't sponsorships
I love how all "web 3" games are built primarily on web 2
Web3 is when you ape a Web2 concept (usually a user-generated content-driven platform) and staple NFTs and Crypto to it. It's a clunky monetization system in search of a concept it can glom onto like micro-purchases did to games. Pray the parasite never finds a compatible host.
@@aidanwarren4980 indeed they ape it. (idk what ape means, I just pictured nft monkey. Btw I have nothing to do with NFTs lol. I just had the image in my head.)
@@aidanwarren4980in short: grafting cryptocurrency onto anything that can *theoretically* be tweaked to interface with money
@@aidanwarren4980if the function can be tweaked to interface with money: IT MUST BE DONE.
and thhe person in the vid is a roblox exploit youtuber
The stuff with the email is so bad it’s almost disturbing. It doesn’t matter if the Sandbox was literally the best game ever, I would never download a game that turned my inbox into a scammy hellhole.
The things Jauwn is willing to do for us.
There are so many people complaining about their emails / the fact that you can't delete accounts. I thought that was like illegal under GDPR regulations, no?
@@jauwn yep its illegal
@@jauwn According to what I've read, technically, no, so long as the service is still providing you a service that you are, in return, paying for. In this case, since you're not paying anything, there is no reason why you can't delete said account. Alternatively, if they don't release the game in the EU, then they don't need to comply with GDPR regulations either. But since I'm sure they allow from the EU, it might be worth filing a complaint against them. GDPR has killed better games then them.
@@cylian91Since when has a silly thing like laws stopped a crypto bro? Well, the ones not in jail now I mean.
@@Hisnitch>technically it's not illegal
>goes into detail on why it is indeed illegal
???
Like this comment if you hate getting ads for The Sandbox. I've never seen them, since I use AdBlock, but clearly a lot of people have seen them on my videos since I got so many comments!
I would say yes, but the Health Care Stimulus scam ads have more of my ire. The Sandbox ads are more amusing.
Can't wait for that guy from your previous Sandbox video to start commenting
They'll be arguing in that comment section until the end of time
it's ironic, because i recently re-watched your old video on the Sandbox, and not even a week later almost every single ad i got on youtube was the sandbox ad, for 3 consecutive days, maybe i was getting them before but i realy never pay attention to ads so i can't tell.
i haven’t gotten any ads for it yet but i hate all ads - especially crypto based ones - so i’m liking on principle
The Sandbox requires a physics glitch exploit for a projectile. The Atari 2600 had native support for five basic objects at a time: two players, two missiles, and one ball. The Sandbox is less technologically advanced than the Atari 2600.
Talk about retro gaming! :) These NFT bros love to try to reinvent the wheel with everything.
That is insane
Lmao that is sad
@@oliver_twistor
My favourite thing is when they say "the blockchain is better because it can do X which you can't in regular games"
Then you see they can in fact do that, like their whole things about "owning your assets" And that the blockchain will let you transfer items?
Guess who's already doing that with csgo without the use of crypto?
@@artsyscrub3226 Yep! Not only can these things be done without crypto; they can be done cheaper, faster and with less problems without it. It's baffling why cryptobros keep hammering on with those tired and easily countered arguments. Have they even played a game before?
"No code" doesn't mean it's easier to create a game, it just means you're more limited in what you can create.
This, im so tired of no code apps, like its good for smaller scale, but in game dev, its useless
broke: "no code"
woke: "a lot of integrated ready-to-use game-mechanics you can edit to your liking"
Yeah, I was used to create small games in FPS maker and Game creator, and it's sucked
Interesting fact: Roblox loads approx 1000% faster than the Sandbox
Roblox loads so fast dude I never really played it before but I jumped around to a bunch of games while getting footage for this video and each one never took more than 30 seconds
@@jauwn it loads so fast because it uses a part system instead of a ton of meshes and crap
@@Tilpur couldn't have said it better myself.
@@Tilpur Actually, Roblox uses meshes for MeshParts, but even with somewhat detailed meshes, Roblox still loads places pretty quickly.
@@jauwnsandbox bored me
Your "Anyway, thanks for the money. Goodbye" at the end pretty much sums up the whole NFT/Metaverse scene
NFT on display?
Windows + Shift + S to the rescue! NFT stolen.
@@betapacket NFT on display? function + printscreen! stolen.
and the person in the vid is a roblox exploit youtuber
@@danyal_assihow many times did you comment this? nobody cares and nobody knows what you're on about.
this guy pretty much just covers crypto games.
so uh ya?
sorry your crypto game sucks, dude. The UA-camr in this video is a good dude
@@TemmiePlays ye hes good i watch him but you still care by replying
Just makes me think of my old coworker bragging to me about how he just made 50$ on an NFT when I asked how much he got it for. He said it was like 5k but it was ok because he traded for another NFT that some celebrity owned too and the price was going to go sky high for that. A week later he opened a scam email and lost his celebrity NFT.
RIP.
I couldn't imagine buying a digital item/picture/thing for 5k, I just don't get it and I used to buy and sell Bitcoin back when the price fluctuated from like $150-300 USD. At least with that I could spend the extra Bitcoin I made on * Illegal items * and more * illegal items * wasn't a bad thing.
@@Gatorade69To be honest, I never felt bad to the cryptobros or enefteebros. They should've known it was never a good investment to begin with. It's all nothing but a Ponzi's pyramid.
The fact that a lot of the people that buys NFT are also the one that get scammed easily is very telling xD .
Tech bros and their non-fungibles are soon parted.
'Eneftee' was never a good investment to begin with. It's all just some cheap JPEGs covering the Ponzi's pyramid inside it.
I remember I told someone that 'eneftee' is not a good thing, but when they started to say 'enjoy being poor' or 'you're about to missing it out', I knew that I would dubbed those people as 'enefteebros' that should never be trusted.
I wonder what are they doing now after that insane market crash.
i like how they call roblox studio "limiting" and "janky" while the developers on sandbox have to look for workarounds to make their own type of games...
I never made a Roblox game myself despite my account's age. The times I tried, I rememebr that you start with nothing but a skybox and a flat baseplat. The fact that games start with that and become some crazy shit is pretty fascinating and far away from "limiting" to me
@@HomekittyL2
Yeah that's the most bs claim I've ever heard about Roblox, the devs litterally protect child predators on a regular basis but your problems is the "limits" roblox has?
I'd like them to play a roblox horror map those things are detailed to the max way more than the sandbox offers!
@@artsyscrub3226 the child predator topic isn’t relevant because it wasn’t brought up, also why did you imply abt the end that this guy was saying the sandbox is better? He didn’t.
@@hstd_Squimp I think that by "them", they meant the people calling the roblox engine limiting, not the video author
I saw ads for the Sandbox calling Roblox's programming "janky" and it royally pissed me off.
and ironic too because their games on "the sandbox" are jankier than roblox's
Roblox doesn't even run that bad it's a game i can play on a 10 year old computer with 25 frames they are straight up lying at this point
@@MeepsFTW Roblox's multiplayer servers are a little janky and outdated, but it still beats the Sandbox in about every way.
I'm a developer in Roblox and honestly everything shown in the video is so hilariously different that if you removed any mention of Roblox or Minecraft I would've never considered this as anything remotely similar to a competitor
The editor interface looks so basic and rudimentary that I can tell even if you got the hang of it you'd still face constant annoyances when trying to do anything; looking at some tutorials the camera movement seems to be a weird mesh between modelling and game engine softwares making it really confusing
I really enjoyed this video, for once I regret having an adblocker as I'd have loved seeing those weird advertisements
Whats your game Ama play it
and the person in the vid is a roblox exploit youtuber
The ads for the sandbox is just the game maker footage with text like "Make a game without writing a single line of code" in a corner with some music playing
and he's advertised/owned a few bitcoin miners, it's no surprise he's selling out like this@@danyal_assi
dude same this is hillarious
I really miss the old Sandbox mobile game and its sequel. It is literally a completely different game, and neither work on IOS anymore.
Yup, it's a shame. Real indie games with a passion being traded for crypto slop
are you talking about the Sandbox one where you just put particles or smth or??
@@cataclysmkataklysmyes sir
The og one also doesnt work on android anymore since it crashes on newer android versions, no idea about the sequel, since I stopped playing it after they paywalled a lot of elements
Yeah... ffs the original and its sequel have literally been broken for YEARS.
...Wait, *ARE THESE THE SAME GUYS?*
The technical possibilities are a lot closer to tabletop sim than roblox
Yeah. Or Mario maker
@@jauwnhey, Mario maker has some insane stuff in it
Oh yeah this is more like Mario Maker except if it was for a late PS2-era movie tie-in game
@@jauwnMario Maker can be used to do math! Not even sure if you can do that in Sandbox.
@@jauwn Mario maker recreated in mario maker
The most ironic thing is that one of their ads feature a character with a gun. *even though guns are impossible to implement* because of the lack of a ranged weapon system.....
Lying is an inherent part of crypto it seems. They lie blatantly to each other and themselves, so why wouldn't they lie to the people they are trying to scam.
@@thetheatreorgan168 funny like number
Funny like number
fun fact: the sandbox forces you to use the same exact pixelated character style that gets old quick, but in roblox you can actually change the style
Even funnier is that, technically, so does MINECRAFT
@@justnoob8141 yeah but minecraft can actually pull it off well unlike the sandbox
Roblox is good, i play it a lot, but there is a problem with avatars. Of course, every one of those is unique in their own sense, but here are three things that i see when i play catalog avatar creator:
1. R63 avatars with comically large thighs/chests
2. Avatars that are straight up discriminating
3. Avatars made of items that can get roblox into a copyright problem like what happened with the audios creator market
Saw a squad of mfs dress up like KKK members
@@chasesheridan2087 Minecraft is probably more technologically advanced and more capable as a game engine than this
@@marranin007 yeah i saw someone make a whole entire computer inside minecraft
Me rolling up to everyone who bought land in the metaverse: I’ve got some ocean-front property in Arizona. If you buy that I’ll throw the Golden Gate free!
Will it pay me cash with Atlas Earth tho
@@civ6industrialdistrict //I'Ve BouGhT mOrE LanD iN ThE MetaVeRsE!//
@@civ6industrialdistrict no but George Strait will ruffle your hair and tell you he’s proud of you, but only if you pay in cash
I shit you not I just got an Atlas Earth ad for the first time ever not 1 hour after reading this comment
Luigi is proud@@civ6industrialdistrict
I used to play the original sandbox. It wasnt anything special, but a fun little powdergame type thing. Its a shame that its used for a shitty nft game nowadays. Whatever does happen lets hope the og sticks around
same here.
when i discovered this channel & video about the sandbox, i was like "wait a minute, it's not the mobile game from my childhood, is it?!"
but alas, it was :'c
same here, hell i even got the game and its sequel "the sandbox evolution" or whatnot aswell.
Wait it's that game?
@@anboard unfortunately
the original used to be even better than it is now, after it was bought, they added some annoying DLC stuff, we can never have nice things
every sandbox game feels like a coloring book activity on the back of a restaurant menu
but far far less fun to do
If the food listed was just a printed 3D model that you can't eat and around 100 dollars per item.
Don't compare that masterpiece to the fucking sandbox.
@@The-S-H3lf-Eater goated take
one time in an ad they said something like "roblox is bad" and then immediately used the roblox work at a pizza place "hi" sound effect.
LOL
“Roblox is bad🤬🤬” **😃 sound effect**
There’s an idea forming in my head that somewhere a crypto bro has a kid that is only allowed to play games like sandbox and is trying to brainwash them into believing that this is the future gaming…
That’s going way too far saying crypto bros can find any woman
@@person_on_the_internet_ bro my dad follows crypto 😭(doesn't believe in this "metaverse" thing tho)
Wait wtf I KNOW Niar
He was ok at PVP, but never could break into pro iirc. He would /yell in SW to dual anybody available instead of going into arena or bgs.
if its the same guy, which shoot it likely is, he uploaded to youtube alot and won roughly 50% of his duels with pros.
We ended up grabbing like, four other rogues because he wasnt exceptional and kind of weird
yeah i watched his vids back in vanilla. How random is it to find him here of all places
His other NFT collections are a bit of a rabbit hole. He's selling his signature as an NFT as well.
I can only imagine this Niar guy as the griefer from the South Park WoW episode.
Dude, you're not Totalbiscuit going from WoW radio to an internet icon. You're just some guy.
@@planescaped We are all just some guy. Just as totalbiscuit is just some guy. You are just some guy as well, you can be your own Niar if you are confident and true. You do not have to sell your signature or NFT's if you do not glorify yourself as much as them though.
@@commenteroftruth9790 That is simultaneously great advice, and very amusing. Well done!
"There's more entertainment value in trying to census a beehive." This is a fantastic line.
Yeah, excellent.
that line made me think of youtuber Any Austin whose current main content is doing employment surveys of video game cities. he would census a beehive and turn it into a video.
That seems more of a beekeeper job... which is cool, cuz at least you get a jar of honey with a fresh honeycomb in it. YUM!
census
love how roblox started out as a basic physics engine and grew overnight to a massive corporation yet sandbox started out with millions in funding and it died the millisecond 2021 ended
I was a kid when Roblox first came out and I remember it being made fun of as a stupid game for babies. Now it's come full circle
@@jauwn cool thing is roblox has games in the platform for ALL ages, from copy and paste games like Brookhaven to real brutal games like Centaura or cool permadeath RPGs like Deepwoken or Rogue Lineage.
@@lunsineabsolute mid game collection
@@VicerimusMortem ^ bro hasnt played any of them
@@lunsine of course not, they're MIDDDDDDD
Roblox: You work, you get paid
EVE Online: You work, you don't get paid
Sandbox: You work, you pay
Roblox: You work, you get paid incredibly little compared to what we made off of your work.
What's funny is that The Sandbox claims "you work, you get paid"
@@TrueBruceTube technically, they get some payment, but in their currency (which costs close to zero $) not in hard sweet cash hehe
@@hellofellowbotsss true but atleast you can get money off of something that you like
@@hellofellowbotsss roblox pays for your server fees, and has multiplayer support built-in, they PAY FOR YOUR SERVERS, and in return request a cut of of your revenue, they dont ask for money if you dont make money but thye still give you money. it is also the game engine with the best community and the best gui, also has a lot more tutorials than others, and uses lua which is easy to learn, also lets you change engine properties with code. LİTERALLY THE BEST GAME ENGINE, NO COMPETİTİON.
I almost ended up having an internship for a company that wanted me to work on their sanbox vr bar. I was very desperate as the internship was for college, thankfully someone else came through but man. This video made me so thankful that I never had to touch this cursed platform.
They called me for an interview for a GameDesign job. It is REALLY safe to say that at least the interview team didnt know shit about what they were doing
I talked to a couple of people who were contractors for them. Seemed like nobody there really cared about the game and was just phoning it in for a paycheck
Where is gyat
@@jauwn I'd say that is sad, but at the same time its a crypto game.
As an amateur game dev on Roblox, I will say that Roblox can be kinda...strict with what's allowed on the platform, I guess? Sometimes fleshing out a specific vision can be an uphill battle with all of their very unspecific guidelines and odd decisions. But that can only be an issue when that kind of leeway in terms of creativity is given to the creator in the first place. Also I have experienced what I can only describe as interactive art in some Roblox games. There are so many talented and phenomenal people on the site who create masterpieces that can even rival triple-A games in my personal opinion. So while I have my specific gripes with Roblox, I would rather stay there than move to Shill City.
also what's the song at the glorified billboard chapter, that would be a perfect song to add to my game's bgm playlist
Yeah, and at least Roblox teaches you valuable skills that you could transfer to another platform.
And the song is Aquatic Ambience from Donkey Kong Country
Thank you so much!
@@jauwn Roblox pushed me to learn how to use Blender which has been invaluable working in "proper" game engines nowadays
@@uglybad4 I very much believe that a significant percentage of Blender users originally came from Roblox
I've been playing roblox on and off since 2014 and this really reminds me of 2014 roblox games, the dialogue option menus, the small platformers, the simple AI, the janky collisions... But at least there was some actual games being made around that time on roblox
I never really conceptualized the term "Late Stage Capitalism" until the Web3 explosion.
I think a more appropriate term would be terminal stage capitalism.
these games are worse than what they had on zx spectrum 40 years ago. level editors from games 20 years older put this "engine" to shame. the platform is idiotic in nature. only the genius self-made entrepreneurs of private education and ivy league could see the groundbreaking *future* of everything in this.
maybe late stage usury. ppl don't make anything anymore they just transfer wealth from place to place.
@@genericgoosereturns What is old is new again. Back then there were a glut of Trash-tier games where everyone and their mother were jumping on a trend to make money more than out of any passion to create. It crashed the video game industry back then, but people fortunately don't care enough about crypto scam games to let them do that again.
Super Mario Maker is a more powerful level editor.
6:00 "This is the same exact gameplay loop that bored me to tears-"
Introducing.. Roblox simulators
0:05 this guy advertises roblox exploits in very shady ways often including adware or many redirects in the process. He also has an exploit which i believe has been confirmed to be a crypto miner (or at least it at some point contained one)
No way they didn't even research
Not a roblox dev, but a roblox vet, I've been playing the game for well over a decade now, grew up on it, and I can say with 100% certainty
I would rather be kicked in the nuts, full force, everyday for a month than even get close to Sandbox.
As someone who played Roblox all the way back in 2008 as a snot-nosed kid, I can confidently say that even back then it blew what Sandbox is now out of the water.
Some random 16 year old back then could create a pirate ship duel game where all players on both crews could do all kinds of stuff like steer, shoot cannons, board the other ship, and blow up their gunpowder barrels. The damage was simulated using Roblox's physics engine, which while janky, made it unique, as holes blown into your ship were like actual real holes that affected structural integrity and could be used as entry ways by the enemy team.
26:34 Between the little pauses after each swing and the spin attack, that is 100% the Breath of Wild attack animation.
thats what i'm saying, it's 1-2-3-spin
Adding to the brand deals: in Dan Olson's video, he mentions that brand deals in metaverse are more often than not part of advertiser deal package. Basically, advertisers bought plots en masse then packaged it with other deals when they realize its worth nothing.
scratch is superior to this in literally every way
Sandbox is worse bc SCRATCH ACTUALLY HAS TUTORIALS!!! And u can ACTUALLY make games or music or art
Not only is it cheaper to publish a game on Roblox than to get a land NFT, it's cheaper to publish a game on Steam ($100).
And unlike The Sandbox, Steam actually has a playerbase.
Beaten by a corporate that can't count to three
Steam isn't a fair comparison since Sandbox is an engine whereas steam is only a marketplace.
Probably harder to make a source game than this crap but it'll be 100x better
@@biigsmokee okay, we can add an Unreal fee in there, too.
(Or we can use Godot/GameMaker/... anything but Unity)
A game where you do nothing got more attention than this
Also, Steam's $100 "fee" is a deposit, too. You get your money back after you've made $1k, heh.
Hey, so I've been a roblox dev for the last 4 years, the game maker engine nowadays is even better than it was when I started deving for fun (Roblox is what sparked that game developer love in my heart, and it has shaped my life entirely, it's because of it that I began gaining such a love for making games) and this sandbox is not even a joke, because a joke would be funny. (Although I do suppose seeing dumb corporations waste money on virtual land is pretty funny)
Even with it's limitations and controversies, roblox is still not even comparable to Sandbox, roblox allows for such a freedom in it's game engine that makes many games and styles be possible, all for free. Tower defense, Horror, Role-playing games, FPS games, and anything in between that the community can make. The front page of the Roblox website has only a few games that are popular, but if you dig Enough, you'll find a huge amount of loyal roblox fans who'll push the engine to it's absolute limits and go even further. Cars and tanks with working suspension, aerodynamics systems for airplanes and helicopters, realistic models and textures, everything.
Sandbox's level designer is barely functional, and I'm surprised some people actually managed to make a functioning game out of it, it'll never be able to be anything close to Roblox's
Like I said before, Roblox is what helped spark the developer inside me, and I'm sure it has done the same thing for many other devs in the Roblox community, even those who have moved on from the game. I can't state enough how much of a gap there is between the Sandbox and Roblox. It's not even like a cliff wide gap, or an ocean wide gap, it's like Roblox is on Earth and the sandbox is in a whole different solar system.
TLDR; The sandbox sucks, but you didn't need me to tell you that did you?
What gets me about the Sandbox is that it's built in Unity, so it's trying to be a game engine inside another game engine which inherently runs you into two sets of restrictions. Even if you are able to push the limits of the Sandbox's level maker it's still walled in by Unity's limits, which leave very little avenues for real creativity. It's a bit like being told you can create an entire living space however you like, but you're restricted to the spare bedroom of an already built house.
The whole metaverse/Web3 adventure really does highlight just how skewed the corporate world's vision of post-pandemic society was in 2021, where everyone was supposed to have fully embraced virtual socialization and abandoned real world gatherings even after it was safe to do so again. All the attempts to cash in on every aspect of it ultimately fell flat in the most hilarious ways.
@@NorthStarBlue1web3 reminds me of so many drunken ideas i get from people at bars when I tell them I'm a developer. None of it is any good and they swear they'll pay me more than my salary but they never follow up. Only the web3 guys drink beer worth my mortgage and can burn money making whatever stupid idea that comes to their heads
As someone who mainly plays roblox tower defense games, yeah this is bad. The sandbox cannot compare to roblox, as games like tower battles, critical tower defense, and tower defense sim, simply blow it out of the water, oh yeah and while bee swarm sim isnt a td game, its still wayy better
I never played Roblox, but am honestly impressed with some things I see. There really is a lot of freedom, it’s fascinating.
I just want to say I appreciate the advice you have sprinkled into your videos over all this time. It's helped me grow as a person as well as entertain me.Remember when you suggested that someone would be better off to "take the loss and just walk away, that time could be better spent learning a skill"? Well I did that, I make my own content now and I finally sold all my shares in GameStop. Thank you for being the push I needed to finally walk away and move on with my life. I'm much happier now and I have new friends I can meme along with who aren't obsessed with the stock market or Ryan Cohen.
Hell yeah! These are all hard lessons I've had to learn myself, and the things I have wished others told me before. Life is too short to spend it waiting around for something too happen.
Don't know when you picked up those shares but hopefully you made a little money.
@@Gatorade69 I made a little money in the squeeze. The remaining shares I kept in an effort to fight back. For awhile I really did believe that I was doing something impactful by holding them. I sold those shares for a bit of a loss so the whole thing was kind of a wash in the end. The more important take away was the lessons I learned.
The lessons I have learned from wasting money have been more important than any lessons I learned in school
@@TheReignOfRaining
That's how they get you, they pretend its great for the poor when really it's just great for the rich, they tell you lies about how you holding the stock will make it go up
But in reality it's all to line the pockets of the already rich, you are not the first and won't be the last, i just wish they were more honest about how similar it is to gambling
What is the point of a virtual concert if you can’t feel the live music around you, see your favorite musicians in person even if from afar, and also appreciate the social aspects? A virtual concert doesn’t sound any better than watching a music video on UA-cam. Though maybe there’s something I don’t understand
it’s only good if it’s interactive, that’s it
Hey I remember the original mobile game known as The Sandbox! But that game was genuinely fun and had plenty of user generated "worlds" (aka just screens of all sorts of available materials the game had to offer, from literal music made with electricity to art and some minigames or experiences). And I went to look for it only to see it no longer appears on the GooglePlay store nor in my years long library of games. :(
So many genuinely good mobile games have died with the advent of the toxicity of microtransactions, I will forever mourn the loss of them, and now I got to include a genuinely good god-sim to this list.
I remember that game too. It had a sequel and I enjoyed both the sequel and the original but the sequel had WAY too many microtransactions and locked away features. Also you could still get it by googling up a website for you to download it.
This "game" is gonna become forgotten about in like 2 months
also cool new intro
Intro has more effort than this game.
It already is forgotten and forsaken.
The intro was used in the past, but it got a lot better than when it was
Yeah the old intro needed subway surfers gameplay to keep your attention
It's, i have seen a bunch of their ads consecutively, it was even translated to my language, and still the game is empty even pumping soo much money on ads lol
Sandbox's level creator is unironically worse than the Spore DLC mission creator.
Lol someone else said the same thing
It’s funny seeing companies talk about needing to raise their prices and then you turn around and see they’re using that same money to throw in a bucket and light on fire by trying to get in on the world’s most overcomplicated version of the “Million dollar homepage”
I think it has to due to, well stock/share holders.
On on hand you most likley have your boring old "get profit up more than last quarter or else" types and possibly the new "WE *NEED* to get on this thing my cousin's uncle's brother's sister-in-law says will BECOME huge in now" types, which leads accompanies to trash bajiions in dollars in worthless "pet" projects or else, _but_ also having to well make money.
game devs: "we have to raise prices because making games has become more expensive"
also game devs: cuts corners and reduces quality to make more money and releases games unfinished
@@HappyBeezerStudios it’s solutions to two different problems. Both aren’t ideal. Budgets have inflated an ungodly amount, so they use their excessive spending as a way to justify price increases. The cuts are for business quarters, drop your teams so you can go “Look we slashed operating expenses by X amount which will net us Y amount more profit next quarter!” Or in stuff like Ubisofts case: “Hey we got the money from that government contract for opening a studio in their country. So we closed it and look how much we made you cause of it!”
But it also what fuels the design by committee style of development. Teams are too big to have meaningful individual impacts and each project has devs rebuilding their teams as not many people are there for multiple projects.
The workaround to fire a projectile in Sandbox is one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard, hahah. One sentence says so much about the Hell you are signing up for by diving into this system
It's funny how hard it is to create a projectile, since even if you're coding a game engine from scratch, a projectile attack is far easier to program than a sword
And also scratch has tutorials for that on youtube made by fans if ur struggling somehow
As a roblox player, I have to say that it doesn’t look like a competitor at all. The limiting game engine seems to be the problem, really.
Bruh the metaverse has gone from a dead mall to a mere billboard
A dude burned half a million fucking dollars to buy a hyperlink next to Spoon Dogg’s hyperlink… the shit people will waste life changing money on goddamn
Who tf is Spoon Dogg 💀
@@sewerside01142 a typo lmao
Spoon Dog is a mucb better name lmao
"There's too many self-indulgent wieners in this city with too much bloody money!"
@@sewerside01142 Snoop Dogg's crack addicted alter ego.
Just as a cherry on top as proof of how little they care about their product for anything other than making money: at 3:10 in the 'Agency Partners' thing, Steve Aoki is literally listed twice, meaning they never proofread it.
Learning that this is related to the original Sandbox on mobile devices is depressing. I grew up playing that and remember that, while it did have some MTX, it was a fun game to play around in with the more kid friendly features. Similar to like, the pixel sand games and stuff. But I guess that's changed.
Throughout the video I kept thinking: "It's an insult to have this thing share the same name with the mobile game, which was a fun small god-simulator type of game." Turns out it IS the same brand. Some money-grubbing motherfucker just had to buy out the brand to make this abomination and piss on my childhood memories lol.
As someone with a lot of roblox gametime since I was a kid; although it's become corporate and profit driven, there's an immense amount of well crafted, custom-code heavy games.
Boxing, Dodgeball, PayDay, Restaurant, Obstacle course, etc. There's so many variation of games available on Roblox, and it's genuinely amazing to see developers to figure these things out.
Sandbox was made from a corporate standpoint from the get-go. There is no passion, only the drive to make money.
Anyone who tries to convince you that Sandbox is gonna be a 'roblox slayer' is either unknowledgable or just trying to pull the wool over your eyes.
lol, Sandbox would seriously never be able to recreate "HOURS" (made by superrun100); who really thought this would overtake ROBLOX???
@@ponponpatapon9670You want to know who thought it would overtake Roblox ? All the people who bought land.
Even something like Work at a Pizza Place has more game functiona than the sandbox
yeah I am playing roblox again but sometimes i just have to dig a little deep to find some games I like
@@PhoebeTheFairy56and you can push buttons by pushing buttons and use custom prompts to buy stuff
Even if declining in the pet shop means glitching all the other prompt
Babe wake up, new Jauwn video
fr tho man you've come so far, thank you for the consistent high quality entertainment.
Hell yeah bro, always getting better
@@jauwn
Your editing style has improved so much, and your sassy, passive-aggressive tone towards these piece of shit games is as funny as ever.
Also, [BROKEN LINK]
@@jauwn Can't wait until the inevitable point in your career when you become the very monster you were fighting and start accepting sponsorships from RAID and other shady skinner-boxes
@@imveryangryitsnotbutter projection isn't cute, not everyone is a sell out
also, pretty weird to be this excited for someone's tipping point, touch grass
Yeah i've been getting offers from sponsors for months now, I always turn them down. Not sure why you think I would sell out when I've said multiple times that I'm never taking a sponsor
I immediately felt a red flag when the person proposing the game is Sakpot, one of those popular Roblox exploiters who will proudly give you their custom script injector which will totally not mine crypto behind your back.
would still be better than playing this game tho
plus roblox has funny self destruct script
@@tylern6420 i once saw a vid of an exploiter in one of those vc hangout games playing as herobrine with minecraft mechanics
I once downloaded sakpot executor to troll kids it was fine at first and suddenly whenever i open the executor my laptop got laggy ah so yeah they are mining bitcoin using your device
let's compare roblox and sandbox with restaurants
>you apply to a job with roblox , they let you in the kitchen , there are no utensils , no appliances , nothing , just a bunch of raw metal and wood on the floor , they make you build your utensils and cook any meal you want (as long as its not in the do-not-cook menu)
>you apply to a job with the sandbox , they let you in while annoyingly ranting about the roblox restaurant next door , you go into the kitchen and... the only utensils you have are a barely working microwave , a cheap plastic spork and a screen showing crypto value.
I remember playing The Sandbox back in the early 2010s when it was but a humble little mobile game. One of my pixel arts got stolen by some random guy adding their initials to it and then promoted on the official Facebook page. Good times
Paraphrased: "The sandbox struggles to keep up with classics like sm64..."
...
Wasn't sm64 the FIRST 3d platforming collectathon?
Good lord!
At least it had plenty of YA! WA! HOOHOO! than these.
no it wasn't.
the first 3D platformer, at least from a commercial standpoint; would be Jumping Flash on PSX beating the pesky plumber by an entire year, actually
@@TemmiePlaysStill, to fail compared to a decades old Mario game had to be embarrassing.
Not only that, the romhacking scene for sm64 is unironically more complex than the sandbox’s editor
Fun fact, when the rage game "Only up" beame viral among stramers, there was a romhack of SM64 following the same formula, that copy of a copy of a copy attracted more players in 2023 than Sandbox... I'm making that up, but still, I'm sure it's true.
I have youtube premium so I've personally never seen an ad for this but my friends see them so much that they go into a fit of rage everytime they're brought up so I guess they gotta be quite common lmaoooo
Yeah I also have premium so I don't see them either but I opened a window without adblock and within 3 videos I got the dreaded Sandbox ad. They're everywhere
Even tho i didnt have youtube premium, i still havent seen an ad from the sandbox
Since I use ad-blocker, I just pray for that poor souls...
@@alexanderthegreatii1341Same. All I get are ads for mobile games that are trying to get me to lust over waifus.
@@jauwn jesus that's insane, the marketing push is crazy
You know why the the game editor suck? "No coding required"
I think true "no code" is different than Blueprints, which are more like visual scripting. But you can build entire games using only blueprints, and plenty of people do that. But I agree, No code engines like Scratch or Construct are kind of a waste of time if you're above the age of 13 because at that point you'd do better just learning how to code, even if it takes a bit longer to get started
I haven't used UE blueprints, but I've heard that it's really good at creating nice C++ code. Back in the day when I started programming, I learned quickly to not touch any sort of code generation tool because they invariably made a complete mess of things one had to go back and clean up oneself, but nowadays tools like UE blueprints create just as good, if not better, code than the average programmer can.
Unreal engine BP basically is visual scripting (visual scripting =/= no code). I am currently learning UE, and I can tell you, the system is AWESOME, easy and flexible. You are still coding, but with visual nodes. No code on the other hand is "add behavior to object, object do thing".
Yeah, "no code" is simply too limited. Even wysiwyg editors like RPG Maker allow for complex scripting.
8:16 Correction - The 16 ETH is the volume for that day. There were 11 sales with an average price of 1.457 ETH. While still a massive decrease, it's less by a factor of ~11.
@@992rstt yeah that’s a huge mistake idk how I let that get through.Oops
By the way, the UA-camr Sakpot (who starred in the ad visible at the beginning of the video) is mostly known for showcasing third-party script executors made for cheating and griefing in Roblox games. Great choice.
As an argentinian,I am absolutely furious we are the first thing you see in this trainwreck
Nobody thinks this hard about nationalism dude, you as a human being are more than your ethnicity or country
Congratulations on winning the cup though.
That voxel editor is by far the best thing I've seen to come out of web3 hell. Meanwhile, Factorio is a far better level editor than that game maker. (Not the Factorio map editor. Factorio, the game.)
it looks like it's almost as good as a piece of software from the 90s, SLAB6
Idk what to think about their editor , look like a copy of BlockBench.
i'd wager that the spore (2008) tribe hut placement editor is a better level editor
well there a mods for minecraft with that same kinda ability but even better and not scummy
Dammit, please let us see the ice block smash into the water one day Jauwn!
Once was commissioned to make a map, the editor had zero tooling and couldn't even get something as simple as a random number generator. so we had to spawn a chicken that runs into a random button, gets killed by the button and then activates/deactivates stuff accordingly. it was a mess if you wanted to make anything remotely interesting. even when creating the map you're wondering how users are supposed to "earn sand". genuine confusion all the way to the top.
then right before the map going live (a jumping puzzle, a la minecraft) TSB broke jumping and the players flamed us for it. 🥰
@@joppemin wow that sounds horrible but pretty much mirrors my experience trying to figure out any of the tools. They are all borderline useless and if you actually want to make something playable you need to do workarounds on top of workarounds
I just wanted to say that i've been binge watching your videos for a while now, and i have to say your writing, editing and content in general has improved a lot. Keep up the good work, and keep shiting on crypto bros.
Also the effort you put in your videos (with all the register here, put your name there, etc...) is incredible, you truly are dedicated to show us how bad theese games are.
Edit: I hope you read this, because after all the time you spend in the horrors of NFT games i figured you need some positivity (or some ad money idk, im trying to give you both)
I did read it :) thank you for the kind words!
The little jauwn creature you made in the voxel editor is quite endearing
Reminds me of something from spore
More effort than all the pixelmon nfts
Jesus H christ on a cross, the guy who has a self made platformer level dedicated to himself is the biggest case of self inflated ego I have ever seen. Like how are you charging that much for log-in screenshots.
But he's rank 14 !
@@Gatorade69 😂😂😂
I JUST realized that the eyes in jauwn's pfp are flipped upside down and presumably enlarged too
Yup you're 100% right. People are always surprised when I livestream and they discover that my pfp is just a zoomed in and distorted picture of my face
@@jauwn that is very funny
lmaooo the fact that sakpot is making the sandbox ads, fits him so well lol
This is so far behind that a game on roblox called Obby Creator that has the limitations of Roblox squared, is less limited than this.
Is it wrong the only time i see the "Virtual Land" argument really work was in Second Life? For those who never played it, in second life you can rent land with the L$ (the game's currency). And this rental scaled in cost based on how large of a parcel you wanted, and how much processing power you wanted dedicated to it. So yes you effectively rented server space, and the cost scaled with how popular the area is (note you can just teleport, but large facilities like clubs that drew a lot of users, caused more congestion on the server, thus higher rents to have people spread out). Pretty often you could find people sub leasing the land too.
See one person owning a chunk for like a personal house might be kinda costly, so it wasn't uncommon for someone to develop an apartment or neighborhood and then rent out the houses. The result is people could get cheaper houses with more strict limits but had to follow rules of the locale (ie they might enforce dress codes when out on the road, but you were free to do whatever in your house). And from my experience most people got along under these (for instance rent prices stayed manageable) because it was very easy to take your shit and move elsewhere.
Also its worth noting you could always cash out your L$ for real money. So if you ran a successful club or store front making custom avatars, clothes and such you could just convert that into money you could use in real life.
Wow, really? That is surprisingly in depth for something I only saw random side ads for on my webpages
Now that you mention it, it does play a lot like Ninjabread Man, doesn’t it?
Did you mean Anubis II?
@MeatBoyEnjoyer i think you mean Rock n Roll Adventures
I think you mean Trixie In Toyland
It's Just BAD
@@lipstickzombie4981eeeeyyyy rerez ref
The sandbox sponsored the global game jam 2021 and pissed all the jammers off.
I forgot about that!
What happened? What did they do?
Most indie devs despise crypto, so a game jam meant for indie devs partnering with them signaled that they were majorly out of touch. This year they partnered with an AI company that uses stable diffusion, which people also disliked since the dataset uses people’s ip without permission.
id probably be pissed too, next thing you know, my screen has a thousand cracks in it from me punching it.
3:12 theres no way i see the smurfs and playboy in the same image
just finished watching your old sandbox review then immediately saw you upload this lmao
I knew you were just finishing it, so I had to get this out just in time
@@jauwn thank u 🙏🙏
When I first saw this video I expected sandbox to at least have some form of coding, not some half baked logic system that could not even give scratch a run for its money. anyways great video.
There is no native support for boolean variables xD
@@jauwn Really? Wow… How did that one -game- experience remake Yahtzee in the Sandbox without even the most basic variable type?
Similar to the projectiles, there is a workaround you can use. I forget exactly what it was but I think it works by spawning an invisible object and then checking if that object exists. If it exists = true, otherwise false.
Horrible, honestly 😂
Congrats on 100k Jauwn. Well deserved! Been watching since you were under 10k and loved every video you've put out
I just realized you can literally remake sandbox with everything inside of it in roblox, it will run better and look the exact fucking same
as someone who makes things in vanilla minecraft w/datapacks, i am intimately familiar with the difference between a system that is limiting, but still incredibly capable, and a system that is just unworkable. and good god, that game "engine" looks awful on every level. youd have more fun, and an easier time, loading up a minecraft world and just messing around with stuff 😵💫
I'm someone who's played Roblox from 2008, all the way to 2018, and I can confidently say that despite how simplistic games were back in 2008, it still had more functions and more varied games compared to The Sandbox, hell, you could make something that shot out a projectile back without incredible jank in 2008. Utterly shocking that a game that claims to be better than Roblox has a hard time beating Roblox during that era in 2024 with vastly more money and foresight.
I've never been on Twitter or TikTok in my life, so I've been mercifully spared from ads for these types of games.
Oh !? But you are missing out on the best conversations and the latest trends.
@@Gatorade69the brain damage ain’t worth it mate
"you can make anything you want" as long as what you want is a basic platformer.
Wait so, this so-called "roblox killer" can't even imitate basic functionality seen in Super Mario Bros such as... projectiles? Geez.
roblox is a gaming engine that allows for relatively infinite freedom. you can write custom code, import models from both other players and custom made models made in blender and other modeling softwares, make custom GUIs, complex lighting engines, etc etc etc, all while players are allowed to have their own unique characters interacting with the world with real time player interactions where monetizing your game does not take hundreds of hundreds of micro- or macrotransactions.
i've played roblox since 2007, and while it does have its flaws, it is a wonderful platform that i cannot seem to give up. it is so full of life and character, and im glad it's stayed alive and relevant for as long as it has.
that being said, the sandbox feels like someone came into my house and shit on my bed, shot my dog, handed me a coyote, and said, "i did you a favor. check out this better dog i got you."
The fact that they're directly targeting Roblox players (which is like 99% kids) with this scummy game is something else.
They aren’t even allowed to buy the nfts like jauwn showed that’s the dumbest bit
uh-huh, and some of the ads are pretty suggestive, too. and because both children AND adults are horny, they instantly download the game. that just makes the scummy factor go way past the line. great job, sandbox, you're a bad company.
surprisingly, roblox playerbase is only around 40% kids, the rest is 16+
@@lunsinewrong
@@carlitosmalzoni its literally statistic you can search it up
The Sandbox is a self-defeating concept. There is no sane reason a game-maker would have a singular map with limited plot sizes you need to purchase except to milk money out of dumb 'investors' this is a game where the NFT aspect actively harms it rather than just being an annoying tac-on
SecondLife is also an interesting one. Buy avatars and assets you never own, rent virtual land from other people or from the owners, virtual labor / jobs, and its own currency with its value based on how much people sell it for
And no blockchain
@@jauwn Exactly!!!
I remember checking it out way back in the day when it was really popular. It was kind of boring so my friend and I just started being trolls but nobody was receptive to our trolling so we left. Only other place besides DeviantArt that was untrollable.
You gotta go to the Buvvins.
@@jauwnbut i wanted to look at my onchain dead broken hyperlinks to a game that doesn't exist anymore!
Trust me, I used to get a LOT of annoying ads for The Shitbox.
same
@@CanalDoPhillipeMEME Me too
I remember playing the sandbox on mobile. its sad to see how its fallen. I genuinely enjoyed it back then. I would go over to my grandmothers, get a maple-cream-stick and a slushy, and explore the levels and art people had made.
As someone who plays Roblox almost weekly, I agree on how it doesn't stand a chance.
When I started seeing ads for the Sandbox, I was worried that they had somehow managed to trick people into playing it.
It's such a relief to hear that it's still abandoned and that the cryptobros are just throwing more money into the void, as usual.
As someone who plays roblox from time to time, it’s filled to the brim with a shit load of grindy ass games that all try to squeeze money out of you to speed up said grind, or a copy and paste template game of what’s ever popular at the time.
But in the barrel of garbage, there are actual gems and fun experiences to have. You just have to be willing to look for them.
From what I’ve seen of your video, the main difference between roblox and sandbox, is that sandbox doesn’t have any hidden gems or diamonds in the rough. Just shit.
Also, the reason there's so many of those grindy games is because of how much easier it is to make a game on roblox. Like, a lower barrier to entry means that there's less to stop bad games from being put out, but also less in the way of the good games too
god the camera in this game hurts to look at, especially in that platforming section. idk if i’m just more used to 2d bc that’s what i’ve been playing lately or if it really is just That Bad. and don’t even get me started on that postprocessing nightmare…
eh it's not terrible but it's not good either.
@@jauwnon second watch, i think my problem is with the cave platforming section in that challenge game. the seemingly random zooms and snaps the camera had to do bc of the geometry are throwing me. its weird bc other games like the isometric one are fine, and its not like i haven’t played 3d platformers with arguably worse-behaving cameras (sm64ds, looking at you). maybe the art style has something to do with it? not sure but it’s just. eugh
As an average Roblox Player, I hate watching this game "compete" with one of my favorite games.
I love this channel your sense of humor is really subtle
i have no idea how to explain it but your editing reminds me both of those weirdcore songs and cruelty squad.
i honestly wish roblox had a competitor so they could start making good updates
No
roblox will never have a competitor, nothing can top it
they got they're competitor! its called: they're own community!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Me when I forget Minecraft is better than Roblox
@@SnoFitzroy you cant compare a game with a game platform + game maker
I find it fascinating how much money was poured into the whole web3 landscape and how little results it brought.
Just you wait, it will pop off any moment now...
"We are still early, get om the rocket ship before its too late!"
@@cairox1509 there has never been a fatal accident in the entire history of rocketry, no siree. i dare any challenger to prove me otherwise
@@spacebassist "there has never been a fatal accident in the entire history of rocketry"
"challenger"
You know what pisses me off the most?
All this wasted, burnt money spent on vanity projects and scams, they could've spent it ANYWHERE, and I mean ANYWHERE else, and it would've come in more handy. The sheer unfathomable amount of money these idiots have torched could've gone to so many things (charity organisations, research groups, what name you) and they spent it on this.
This shit that had the writing on the wall the day it was announced.
Wait wait wait. This is the successor to *that* The Sandbox? I used to love that that game (especially when I realized you could just turn on airplane mode to purchase everything in the store for free).
If I had to guess why it's mostly collect-a-thons, it's because that's as far as your average corporation would dare to venture into making a game. My previous company had some stupid metaverse event with a "easter egg hunt" and I can't help but picture middle aged corporate women grinning widely while doing the most basic or minimal?) interactions possible.
Basically, don't let corporate work with games, they don't know the meaning of cutting loose.