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Sandbox vs themepark

Raph Koster

I just watched a couple of videos about sandbox vs themepark games (in particular one by NerdSlayer and another by Josh “Strife” Hayes )… One thing that struck me about the ways players often talk about this (because at this point the history is so old) is that people think of sandbox as the older version of MMOs, and themeparks as newer.

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RP4K Teacher Profiles: Gabriel Dibenedetto

Real Programming

His passion for gaming is broad, but he has a special love for sandbox games , point-and-click graphic adventures, and RPGs. While he loves teaching coding to students of all levels, he has worked hard on our latest experimental course, Elite Game Engine.

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5 Simple Programming Languages to Teach Your Kids

Real Programming

One of the most popular video games for youngsters and adults alike, Minecraft, is also written in Java. The online sandbox gaming platform is popular because it allows kids to build, create, mine, and use their creative juices in many exciting ways. It can also be used to create games.

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Vulkan progress report #7

Mircosoft Game Dev

using a special screen-space filter to correctly simulate roughness. Additionally to being able to simulate skin more correctly, it also supports transmittance, so light that comes from behind will spread towards the front by scattering below the surface. This is changing in 4.0, New Subsurface Scattering. In Godot 4.0,

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Godot for AA/AAA game development - What's missing?

Mircosoft Game Dev

This is needed for some types of game mechanics such as: Projectiles (bullet hell for example). Units in some types of strategy games with thousands of entitites roaming across a map. Cars/people in city simulators, where thousands appear all across the city. Sandbox style simulations. The answer is “it depends”.

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