The Sandbox: "It's Better Than Roblox"™

ROBLOX STUDIO BE LIKE: JANKY! MAKE ME ANGRY d:(
THE SANDBOX (EPIC) BE LIKE: AWESOME! ;-)
This video will most likely be my final look at The Sandbox before it is quietly shelved some time in the next 12-24 months. It's still fascinating just how much hype and money was poured into creating this, yet how misguided it all seems to be. It's like the people making these games have never played real games before, and they have absolutely no idea what the market wants.
I'm not an expert, but I can assure you that players do not want an overly-monetized platform for corpo-generated slop.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:26 What is The Sandbox?
4:36 Welcome to The Metaverse
6:19 Corporate Partners: Revisited
9:37 I Am Not Having Fun
21:08 Sandcastle Demolition Expert
29:18 The Metaverse is a Glorified Billboard
32:51 Special Thanks and Goodbye

[@arapcahikayeler]

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.

[@StanislawStanczyk-by4gg]

which no one will buy...

[@arapcahikayeler]

@@StanislawStanczyk-by4gg When you make perfect beings, it is impossible not to sell them.

[@StanislawStanczyk-by4gg]

@@arapcahikayeler the problem is as stated in the video almost no one 0lays the game

[@arapcahikayeler]

@@StanislawStanczyk-by4gg The sandbox mobile version will be released soon and then the number of players will increase significantly.

[@StanislawStanczyk-by4gg]

@@arapcahikayeler very unlikely since there is only about 500 playable games that aren't sponsorships

[@Genericuser2]

Interesting fact: Roblox loads approx 1000% faster than the Sandbox

[@jauwn]

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

[@user-bg1ci9bb8k]

@@jauwn it loads so fast because it uses a part system instead of a ton of meshes and crap

[@jcaccavallo4820]

@@user-bg1ci9bb8k couldn't have said it better myself.

[@XaneMyers]

​@@user-bg1ci9bb8k Actually, Roblox uses meshes for MeshParts, but even with somewhat detailed meshes, Roblox still loads places pretty quickly.

[@Nodisplayed]

@@jauwnsandbox bored me

[@kagari1426]

I love how all "web 3" games are built primarily on web 2

[@aidanwarren4980]

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.

[@nobbyfirefly57]

@@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.)

[@thetheatreorgan168]

​@@aidanwarren4980in short: grafting cryptocurrency onto anything that can *theoretically* be tweaked to interface with money

[@thetheatreorgan168]

​@@aidanwarren4980if the function can be tweaked to interface with money: IT MUST BE DONE.

[@danyal_assi]

and thhe person in the vid is a roblox exploit youtuber

[@CustardGusher]

every sandbox game feels like a coloring book activity on the back of a restaurant menu

[@toomanyaccounts]

but far far less fun to do

[@dimwarlock]

If the food listed was just a printed 3D model that you can't eat and around 100 dollars per item.

[@Elvan-Lady]

"There's more entertainment value in trying to census a beehive." This is a fantastic line.

[@KnakuanaRka]

Yeah, excellent.

[@hoodiegal]

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.

[@battlion507]

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!

[@Human_Enthusiast]

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.

[@jauwn]

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?

[@cylian91]

@@jauwn yep its illegal

[@hisnitch]

@@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.

[@PoisonedAl]

@@cylian91Since when has a silly thing like laws stopped a crypto bro? Well, the ones not in jail now I mean.

[@polocatfan]

@@hisnitch>technically it's not illegal >goes into detail on why it is indeed illegal ???

[@jauwn]

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!

[@GoatTheBomb]

I would say yes, but the Health Care Stimulus scam ads have more of my ire. The Sandbox ads are more amusing.

[@BlueminNight]

Can't wait for that guy from your previous Sandbox video to start commenting

[@jauwn]

They'll be arguing in that comment section until the end of time

[@Nyx_801]

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.

[@ariesfox6794]

i haven’t gotten any ads for it yet but i hate all ads - especially crypto based ones - so i’m liking on principle

[@joseignaciofarias2617]

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

[@jauwn]

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

[@noterobrine9921]

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?

[@NorthStarBlue1]

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.

[@iamathousandapples]

​@@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

[@panderater2650]

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

[@yamihikarilightdark9]

I never played Roblox, but am honestly impressed with some things I see. There really is a lot of freedom, it’s fascinating.

[@kitfromvideos]

Your "Anyway, thanks for the money. Goodbye" at the end pretty much sums up the whole NFT/Metaverse scene

[@betapacket]

NFT on display? Windows + Shift + S to the rescue! NFT stolen.

[@Blue_FirewalI]

@@betapacket NFT on display? function + printscreen! stolen.

[@danyal_assi]

and the person in the vid is a roblox exploit youtuber

[@TemmiePlays]

​@@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 KZbinr in this video is a good dude

[@danyal_assi]

@@TemmiePlays ye hes good i watch him but you still care by replying

[@hiramjung8149]

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.

[@Gatorade69]

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.

[@crystalwings4520]

​@@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.

[@lauriepoune]

The fact that a lot of the people that buys NFT are also the one that get scammed easily is very telling xD .

[@ej1346]

Tech bros and their non-fungibles are soon parted.

[@crystalwings4520]

'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.

[@floydhead42]

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]

Talk about retro gaming! :) These NFT bros love to try to reinvent the wheel with everything.

[@ARStudios2000]

That is insane

[@williamdrum9899]

Lmao that is sad

[@artsyscrub3226]

@@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?

[@oliver_twistor]

@@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?

[@marianogamer6261]

As an argentinian,I am absolutely furious we are the first thing you see in this trainwreck

[@cookimaus1]

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

[@vizthex]

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

[@SporianSummit]

same here, hell i even got the game and its sequel "the sandbox evolution" or whatnot aswell.

[@anboard]

Wait it's that game?

[@cookimaus1]

@@anboard unfortunately

[@Minty1337]

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

[@theoneandonlyartyom]

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]

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

[@lunsine]

@@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.

[@VicerimusMortem]

​@@lunsineabsolute mid game collection

[@lunsine]

@@VicerimusMortem ^ bro hasnt played any of them

[@VicerimusMortem]

@@lunsine of course not, they're MIDDDDDDD

[@NotSoMelancholy]

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”

[@jackalenterprisesofohio]

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.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

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

[@NotSoMelancholy]

@@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.

[@GSFigure]

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.

[@tylern6420]

would still be better than playing this game tho plus roblox has funny self destruct script

[@ChimpsR4]

I really miss the old Sandbox mobile game and its sequel. It is literally a completely different game, and neither work on IOS anymore.

[@jauwn]

Yup, it's a shame. Real indie games with a passion being traded for crypto slop

[@cataclysmsun]

are you talking about the Sandbox one where you just put particles or smth or??

[@Kiterunner]

​@@cataclysmsunyes sir

[@feefre]

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

[@BobbinRobbin777]

Yeah... ffs the original and its sequel have literally been broken for YEARS. ...Wait, *ARE THESE THE SAME GUYS?*

[@anomalousbob9361]

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

[@Typersshard]

Whats your game Ama play it

[@danyal_assi]

and the person in the vid is a roblox exploit youtuber

[@real_blah]

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

[@testing123-ev9td]

and he's advertised/owned a few bitcoin miners, it's no surprise he's selling out like this@@danyal_assi

[@Creeper_945]

dude same this is hillarious

[@Alberos]

You know why the the game editor suck? "No coding required"

[@jauwn]

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

[@oliver_twistor]

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.

[@sourkefir]

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".

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Yeah, "no code" is simply too limited. Even wysiwyg editors like RPG Maker allow for complex scripting.

[@paulsd9255]

Bruh the metaverse has gone from a dead mall to a mere billboard

[@RhythmandFlorence]

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!

[@civ6industrialdistrict]

Will it pay me cash with Atlas Earth tho

[@ahniandfriends123]

​​​@@civ6industrialdistrict //I'Ve BouGhT mOrE LanD iN ThE MetaVeRsE!//

[@RhythmandFlorence]

@@civ6industrialdistrict no but George Strait will ruffle your hair and tell you he’s proud of you, but only if you pay in cash

[@jauwn]

I shit you not I just got an Atlas Earth ad for the first time ever not 1 hour after reading this comment

[@chaosco6462]

Luigi is proud@@civ6industrialdistrict

[@dragonfluf]

The technical possibilities are a lot closer to tabletop sim than roblox

[@jauwn]

Yeah. Or Mario maker

[@civ6industrialdistrict]

​@@jauwnhey, Mario maker has some insane stuff in it

[@jauwn]

Oh yeah this is more like Mario Maker except if it was for a late PS2-era movie tie-in game

[@dagda1180]

​@@jauwnMario Maker can be used to do math! Not even sure if you can do that in Sandbox.

[@civ6industrialdistrict]

@@jauwn Mario maker recreated in mario maker

[@actdye]

Roblox: You work, you get paid EVE Online: You work, you don't get paid Sandbox: You work, you pay

[@IHomie1]

The little jauwn creature you made in the voxel editor is quite endearing

[@increbidel4685]

Reminds me of something from spore

[@williamdrum9899]

More effort than all the pixelmon nfts

[@LowlandTenrec]

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

[@phewphewArkam]

yeah i watched his vids back in vanilla. How random is it to find him here of all places

[@jauwn]

His other NFT collections are a bit of a rabbit hole. He's selling his signature as an NFT as well.

[@planescaped]

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.

[@commenteroftruth9790]

@@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.

[@liastaob]

@@commenteroftruth9790 That is simultaneously great advice, and very amusing. Well done!

[@Syrzl9231]

I never really conceptualized the term "Late Stage Capitalism" until the Web3 explosion.

[@golemofflesh3953]

I think a more appropriate term would be terminal stage capitalism.

[@genericgoosereturns]

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.

[@letsmakeit110]

maybe late stage usury. ppl don't make anything anymore they just transfer wealth from place to place.

[@planescaped]

@@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.

[@cyankoopa8111]

Super Mario Maker is a more powerful level editor.

[@SollowP]

The fact that they're directly targeting Roblox players (which is like 99% kids) with this scummy game is something else.

[@livwake]

They aren’t even allowed to buy the nfts like jauwn showed that’s the dumbest bit

[@TriumphandTerrorOfficial]

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.

[@lunsine]

surprisingly, roblox playerbase is only around 40% kids, the rest is 16+

[@carlitosmalzoni]

@@lunsinewrong

[@lunsine]

@@carlitosmalzoni its literally statistic you can search it up

[@IXGuilmonXI]

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.

[@mousepotatodoesstuff]

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.

[@3emad.065]

Beaten by a corporate that can't count to three

[@biigsmokee]

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

[@mousepotatodoesstuff]

@@biigsmokee okay, we can add an Unreal fee in there, too. (Or we can use Godot/GameMaker/... anything but Unity)

[@kimikothetanuki314]

A game where you do nothing got more attention than this

[@Xannthas]

Also, Steam's $100 "fee" is a deposit, too. You get your money back after you've made $1k, heh.

[@nattythepanda4692]

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.

[@enderkatze6129]

I JUST realized that the eyes in jauwn's pfp are flipped upside down and presumably enlarged too

[@jauwn]

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

[@enderkatze6129]

@@jauwn that is very funny

[@TheGlenn8]

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.

[@raetreader]

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

[@jauwn]

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

[@raetreader]

Thank you so much!

[@uglybad4]

@@jauwn Roblox pushed me to learn how to use Blender which has been invaluable working in "proper" game engines nowadays

[@Tranqwhirl]

​@@uglybad4 I very much believe that a significant percentage of Blender users originally came from Roblox

[@NumbersCanBeFun]

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.

[@jauwn]

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]

Don't know when you picked up those shares but hopefully you made a little money.

[@NumbersCanBeFun]

@@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.

[@jauwn]

The lessons I have learned from wasting money have been more important than any lessons I learned in school

[@MeepsScience]

I saw ads for the Sandbox calling Roblox's programming "janky" and it royally pissed me off.

[@HekateMGO]

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

[@clev7989]

Paraphrased: "The sandbox struggles to keep up with classics like sm64..." ... Wasn't sm64 the FIRST 3d platforming collectathon? Good lord!

[@DxBlack]

At least it had plenty of YA! WA! HOOHOO! than these.

[@TemmiePlays]

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

[@thunderspark1536]

​@@TemmiePlaysStill, to fail compared to a decades old Mario game had to be embarrassing.

[@somerobloxdude3699]

Not only that, the romhacking scene for sm64 is unironically more complex than the sandbox’s editor

[@dimwarlock]

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.

[@user-lf3ff9cv4d]

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.

[@chasesheridan2087]

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

[@thetheatreorgan168]

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.....

[@YugoEnjoyer]

This "game" is gonna become forgotten about in like 2 months also cool new intro

[@FelisImpurrator]

Intro has more effort than this game.

[@sorinelCuCapulChel]

It already is forgotten and forsaken.

[@crabbycakey]

The intro was used in the past, but it got a lot better than when it was

[@jauwn]

Yeah the old intro needed subway surfers gameplay to keep your attention

[@user-md2rm2di2q]

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

[@planescaped]

26:34 Between the little pauses after each swing and the spin attack, that is 100% the Breath of Wild attack animation.

[@jauwn]

thats what i'm saying, it's 1-2-3-spin

[@stockicide]

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.

[@rompevuevitos222]

I am pretty sure that the email stunt alone defines this game as spyware

[@dagda1180]

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.

[@ponponpatapon9670]

lol, Sandbox would seriously never be able to recreate "HOURS" (made by superrun100); who really thought this would overtake ROBLOX???

[@Gatorade69]

​@@ponponpatapon9670You want to know who thought it would overtake Roblox ? All the people who bought land.

[@PhoebeTheFairy56]

Even something like Work at a Pizza Place has more game functiona than the sandbox

[@GoodFuude]

yeah I am playing roblox again but sometimes i just have to dig a little deep to find some games I like

[@tylern6420]

​@@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

[@101lwx]

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

[@jauwn]

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

[@alexanderthegreatii1341]

Even tho i didnt have youtube premium, i still havent seen an ad from the sandbox

[@Dragoonmaster999]

Since I use ad-blocker, I just pray for that poor souls...

[@Gatorade69]

​@@alexanderthegreatii1341Same. All I get are ads for mobile games that are trying to get me to lust over waifus.

[@101lwx]

​@@jauwn jesus that's insane, the marketing push is crazy

[@fantasybabydino]

i honestly wish roblox had a competitor so they could start making good updates

[@-error-7936]

No

[@justaguy4575]

roblox will never have a competitor, nothing can top it

[@catwhite905]

they got they're competitor! its called: they're own community!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@SnoFitzroy]

Me when I forget Minecraft is better than Roblox

[@lunsine]

@@SnoFitzroy you cant compare a game with a game platform + game maker

[@AzizidarkReborn]

Jauwn: "I swear I'm not an idiot." Also Jauwn: *tortures and doxxes himself with The Sandbox more than once*

[@jauwn]

:D

[@bewilderbeestie]

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.)

[@Tuxfanturnip]

it looks like it's almost as good as a piece of software from the 90s, SLAB6

[@Plaston_]

Idk what to think about their editor , look like a copy of BlockBench.

[@Bacony_Cakes]

i'd wager that the spore (2008) tribe hut placement editor is a better level editor

[@MisterPancake778]

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.

[@Gatorade69]

But he's rank 14 !

[@MisterPancake778]

@@Gatorade69 😂😂😂

[@DarkThisWhite]

Even Roblox Obby Creator is better than The Sandbox 😭

[@user-wi9lx2vo4q]

6:00 "This is the same exact gameplay loop that bored me to tears-" Introducing.. Roblox simulators

[@devzozo]

The sandbox sponsored the global game jam 2021 and pissed all the jammers off.

[@jauwn]

I forgot about that!

[@livwake]

What happened? What did they do?

[@devzozo]

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.

[@TriumphandTerrorOfficial]

id probably be pissed too, next thing you know, my screen has a thousand cracks in it from me punching it.

[@Malao558]

Now that you mention it, it does play a lot like Ninjabread Man, doesn’t it?

[@lukasegeling5205]

Did you mean Anubis II?

[@SkyePanther25]

​@MeatBoyEnjoyer i think you mean Rock n Roll Adventures

[@iamathousandapples]

I think you mean Trixie In Toyland

[@lipstickzombie4981]

It's Just BAD

[@CuteNarpNarpPlush]

​@@lipstickzombie4981eeeeyyyy rerez ref

[@bushsniper7198]

scratch is superior to this in literally every way

[@NobleFurLyfe]

bro the dev tools in this game literally look so bad. i'm primarily a Roblox developer and looking at this makes me sad. let alone LittleBigPlanet, the content creation capabilities in this game might be less capable than Scratch 💀 like you can literally find fully-functional multiplayer recreations of Terraria on Scratch, nothing in this video has even come close to the level of impressed i was when i first found that 😭

[@jauwn]

This is far worse than Scratch, easily.

[@austin.paquette]

Babe wake up, new Jauwn video fr tho man you've come so far, thank you for the consistent high quality entertainment.

[@jauwn]

Hell yeah bro, always getting better

[@austin.paquette]

​@@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]

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

@@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

[@ember9361]

@@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

[@jauwn]

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

[@nathanpremo]

"you can make anything you want" as long as what you want is a basic platformer.

[@learnova1761]

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

[@ideale3183]

Sandbox's level creator is unironically worse than the Spore DLC mission creator.

[@jauwn]

Lol someone else said the same thing

[@Endrax]

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.

[@jauwn]

There is no native support for boolean variables xD

[@XaneMyers]

@@jauwn Really? Wow… How did that one -game- experience remake Yahtzee in the Sandbox without even the most basic variable type?

[@jauwn]

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 😂

[@Krystalchan2009]

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.

[@ARStudios2000]

Wow, really? That is surprisingly in depth for something I only saw random side ads for on my webpages

[@yamandoesstuff9755]

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 love this channel your sense of humor is really subtle

[@onebassplayer697]

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.

[@PhoebeTheFairy56]

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

[@Nerathul1]

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

[@Yazawa-Nico]

another banger from you, can't wait for another anniversary video

[@snezor2783]

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.

[@quochuyle2263]

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.

[@christabox5542]

Dammit, please let us see the ice block smash into the water one day Jauwn!

[@WunderWulfe]

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

[@jauwn]

And no blockchain

[@WunderWulfe]

@@jauwn Exactly!!!

[@Gatorade69]

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.

[@theonlybilge]

You gotta go to the Buvvins.

[@thetheatreorgan168]

​@@jauwnbut i wanted to look at my onchain dead broken hyperlinks to a game that doesn't exist anymore!

[@CHEF.MP3]

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…

[@person_on_the_internet_]

That’s going way too far saying crypto bros can find any woman

[@heavensgates_]

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.

[@planescaped]

I've never been on Twitter or TikTok in my life, so I've been mercifully spared from ads for these types of games.

[@Gatorade69]

Oh !? But you are missing out on the best conversations and the latest trends.

[@livwake]

@@Gatorade69the brain damage ain’t worth it mate

[@fifsqueak]

just finished watching your old sandbox review then immediately saw you upload this lmao

[@jauwn]

I knew you were just finishing it, so I had to get this out just in time

[@fifsqueak]

@@jauwn thank u 🙏🙏

[@KibyAnderson]

I didn't really expect to hear about the original sandbox and it's sequel the sandbox evolved again, I was pretty obsessed with the sequel as a kid bc you could make custom objects and enemies via a sprite editor and building levels was fun. But you could also just screw around and spawn tsunamis, meteors, tornadoes and just destroy random things, or you could just spawn in a bunch of dirt, give it some water and bam you have a whole entire ecosystem right in front of your eyes. I am glossing over from what I remember playing it, but it was probably one of my all time favorite classics I used to play. It's a shame now that it's become a crypto slop pile with zero heart or even fun, it looks so entirely different from the sandbox and sandbox evolved (excluding the 3D part) down to even the pixel art style. I hope the original devs makes some kind of spiritual successor to the sandbox, or something entirely bc the game they made was extremely fun and was made fully with care, far from the crypto wasteware it has been morphed into now.

[@PhoebeTheFairy56]

I think worldbox is kinda a spiritual successor to it

[@mossy3565]

A SCAN OF YOUR PASSPORT AND FACE FOR A CHANCE AT NFTs Oh my lord

[@Crit-a-cola]

Whats next, biometric data? DNA? Divorce papers?

[@dakodahuber]

Congrats on 100k Jauwn. Well deserved! Been watching since you were under 10k and loved every video you've put out

[@ariesfox6794]

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…

[@jauwn]

eh it's not terrible but it's not good either.

[@ariesfox6794]

@@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

[@Lim95]

i signed up without knowing it was a crypto game 3 years ago while looking for a good game engine they still send me emails

[@zscout1288]

Whenever I hear web 3 my brain auto corrects it to scam

[@chucklesdeclown8819]

"dishonest reviews, and according to channels like this will not grow" counter argument, my mans channel grew to 100k congrats! anyway these people are delusional, i still cant believe some people think nft slop will go anywhere.

[@Szpagin]

I find it fascinating how much money was poured into the whole web3 landscape and how little results it brought.

[@Gatorade69]

Just you wait, it will pop off any moment now...

[@cairox1509]

"We are still early, get om the rocket ship before its too late!"

[@spacebassist]

@@cairox1509 there has never been a fatal accident in the entire history of rocketry, no siree. i dare any challenger to prove me otherwise

[@mrshonk3948]

@@spacebassist "there has never been a fatal accident in the entire history of rocketry" "challenger"

[@ARStudios2000]

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.

[@Doshiba]

The most annoying thing about those crypto games Is that even if i wanted to play it EVERYTHING requires real money and it's wayyyy too expensive

[@lelaleasl]

lol skips being banned from speedruns is hilarious. speedrun skips are literally one of the fundamental pillars of speedrunning.

[@icantthinkofagoodusername5564]

How they did not know about the concept of speedrunning?

[@Kawamagi]

i have no idea how to explain it but your editing reminds me both of those weirdcore songs and cruelty squad.

[@yohishi1221]

roblox offer creativity and let his userbase make games assets events games and so on but the sandown being not free is already making entry for game maker user dificultes when compare to modable games likes roblox, minecraft mods, sims 4 mods

[@jauwn]

It’s free to make games and share them with friends, you just have to pay $500 per game to publish it to the map. So basically nobody will see it unless you pay

[@Gatorade69]

Roblox is not a game, it is a man.

[@brawler5760]

@@Gatorade69Mr. John Roblox, the CEO of Roblox

[@DUXLOL]

Sandbox just doesn't have the same charm that Roblox has

[@altbread7120]

I’ve come to truly enjoy this channel’s game reviews. I miss reviews similar to the ones on old difficult games like the car one and the Prince of Persia knockoff.

[@DuskSkullin]

Jawn just wanna say congrats with all your success and 100k subs!

[@jauwn]

Thanks!

[@_incogni_]

Always glad to see a new upload from you, dude!

[@transientwaveform1475]

For all its problems, Roblox is an incredible way to introduce young people to tons and tons of practical skills. This is not that at all, lmao

[@airjairj1203]

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.

[@airjairj1203]

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)

[@jauwn]

I did read it :) thank you for the kind words!

[@DiamondKittyCat]

I like how you tried to give them money and the service refused to work lol

[@Caelan1963]

great video again! i really enjoy your content a lot. i just wanted to ask if the „all jauwn videos“ playlist will be updated again? i used it to have all videos up to date downloaded but the last two? three? haven’t been added. I don’t mind if u keep the playlist updated or not, i just want to know if i need to make my own 😅

[@jauwn]

I'll fix it right now :) thanks for reminding me

[@Caelan1963]

Thank you! I really appreciate it : )

[@skraddarn69]

"No code" doesn't mean it's easier to create a game, it just means you're more limited in what you can create.

[@zachariah74]

Its all done in the name of accessibility

[@williamdrum9899]

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

[@purplebunz]

I love the idea of that land plot thing. Being able to advertise your games in a game creator this way would be super cool without the billboards with unplayable games.

[@brawler5760]

Second Life

[@liastaob]

Your intros are getting better and better!

[@WinterHE]

Your videos genuinely scare me, being aware that people like this exists fills me with dread for the future. You trully go above and beyond for your content but giving your personal data for this was too much imo, stay safe dude. The cryptards made "Idiocracy is not a documentary" age like milk.