Another land sale hits The Sandbox, this on for a music-oriented neighborhood centered around an estate owned by Warner Music Group. With a dozen other musical artists and companies nearby, this area could end up being a hub for musically themed Sandbox experiences!

We continue to see more integration of blockchain and music industries this summer. The latest news on that front comes from The Sandbox and Warner Music Group, who have partnered up for a new land sale, referred to as the ‘Infinite Pulse Land Sale’. Registration for the land raffle is open now. The neighborhood with plots available for this land sale features a large estate owned by Warmer Music, plus a number of other musical neighbors, including Blond:ish, Slipknot, Jamiroquai, Pixelynx, and even Elvis Presley (well, his estate anyway)! Just to name a few. This looks to be a pretty tight neighborhood!

Land Sale Info

This sale follows the usual routine that The Sandbox has set up. To purchase one of the available plots outright, participants must first join and win a raffle. Interested parties can enter the raffle at The Sandbox website. Entry is free, though you must have enough SAND tokens in your wallet for the type of plot you wish to purchase (1,011 SAND tokens for a standard plot, 4683 tokens for a premium)

Raffle signups began on June 22nd and remain open through July 12th. Winners will be announced on July 14th, with sales opening that same day and running through July 18th. Any unpurchased plots from the sale head to OpenSea for auction. In addition to the raffle, there will also be 11 Estate plots and 10 small plots up for auction starting on the 14th also. Raffle entry, auctions, and land plot purchases are all on the Polygon network. Purchases are made with SAND tokens.

Also, as an additional bonus for this sale, those who purchase Premium land plots will have an opportunity to win tickets to real life concerts. No details available yet for that. But it’s always nice to see real life perks included in NFT sales!

Infinite Pulse land sale in The Sandbox

The Sandbox has been heavily promoting the idea of neighborhoods in their virtual world. At the moment, plot proximity has no effect on gameplay. However, at some point the future, there will be some kind of ability to travel between adjacent plots. Which could make who you have for neighbors somewhat important!

Sandbox Land

Land plots in The Sandbox provide their owners with a number of benefits. Land owners can join a limited, exclusive pool for staking SAND tokens, receive access to special events and early access to new features, and will also receive airdrops of Gems and Catalysts sometime in 2023. Gems and Catalysts will be used to enhance items in The Sandbox.

But, the real reason to own a land in The Sandbox is to build your own game or social experience. This includes art galleries, music clubs, hangouts, and whatever else can be imagined and built. Eventually, land owners will even be able to monetize their experiences. The Sandbox offers VoxEdit, a tool for creating and animating game assets, and Game Maker, a software app for building, designing, and publishing your own Sandbox experience. Both are free to use and receive regular updates with new features.

To learn more about The Sandbox, read our complete Sandbox Review and guide here. You can also visit their website, follow them on Twitter, and join their Discord server.

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Voxel artists and creators can now bring their favorite heroes and villains to life and earn SAND tokens for doing so.

Prepare to showcase your VoxEdit skills in the Heroes vs. Villains contest

The Sandbox (TSB), a leading user-generated metaverse, is back with another VoxEdit contest. This time, aspiring artists and creators are tasked to bring their favorite heroes and villains to life for a chance at a 15,000 SAND prize pool.

According to The Sandbox, participants will get to create not one, but two remarkable NFTs – an awe-inspiring hero and a wickedly intriguing villain – to be deployed in the metaverse. The 15,000 SAND will be split among the top entries. It should be noted that the top 5 winners will be able to mint their NFTs and sell them on the TSB Marketplace.

1st place: 6,000 SAND.
2nd place: 3,500 SAND.
3rd place: 2,000 SAND.
4th to 10th place: 500 SAND each.
The event is now open for submission through July 2nd, 11:59 pm (UTC), with the results to be announced between July 3rd and 22nd. Creators must submit their entry as a GIF, tweet their asset’s GIF, tag @VoxEdit and @TheSandboxGame, and include #VoxEditWeekly hashtags in their tweets. To complete their submissions, participants must also fill in this form.

Each asset will be judged based on the 5 criteria below:

Creativity: How creative was the asset based on the theme?
Usability: How well does the asset perform in other games?
Optimization: Is the asset optimized for use in The Sandbox?
Detailing: The level of detail on the asset.
Quality of Animation: Were new animations added, and how good are they?

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Tony Hawk, the legendary American expert skateboarder, has introduced a new partnership with The Sandbox to construct the largest digital skatepark of the metaverse. As per The Sandbox blog, Tony Hawk and NFT answer platform Autograph are planning to launch an NFT series and an journey in The Sandbox known as “Tony Hawk Land.” The land will enable gamers to create their skateparks, use their NFTs and take part in contests. The information dropped after the announcement of the cancellation of the Tony Hawk Pro Skater three & four sequel.

The Tony Hawk’s Land

The advent of Tony Hawk’s Land pursuits to promote skateboard tradition globally. The digital panorama of the Sandbox will appeal to the skateboarding neighborhood who can attempt out this interesting digital world the place they can journey on their custom-made skateboards. The Tony Hawk Land will consist of 36 plots of land, making it the largest skatepark of the metaverse.

It will enable gamers to create their customized skateparks giving customers innovative freedom. Players can use the Game Maker software program to construct the skateparks and import them to the metaverse, after which they will be capable to skate with different players. The journey will additionally have its very own market the place you can purchase and promote NFT of skateboards and customized apparel.

“I have been a fan of new technology all my life – from the first videogames and home computers with CGI capabilities – so I am fascinated by the metaverse and excited to bring our culture into the virtual landscape of The Sandbox.”

Tony Hawk, American skateboarder

Tony Hawk NFTs built by Autograph

Autograph, an NFT platform that connects legendary people from the sports world with blockchain platforms, will help create Tony Hawk NFTs for his land on The Sandbox. These NFTs can be iconic skateboards, equipment, accessories, and apparel resembling that of Hawks. There will be a legendary skateboard NFT that Tony Hawks used at the X Games in 1999. At this event, he became the world’s first skateboarder to land a 900 on a vert ramp. These high-fidelity NFTs will be turned into 3D voxel avatars with in-game functionality for owners. The interoperable NFTs can be used outside The Sandbox metaverse, adding more utility.

“At Autograph, we strive to build otherwise impossible experiences for communities of fans, and this is a step towards our goal of connecting them uniquely and at scale to Tony Hawk and each other.”

Dillon Rosenblatt, CEO at Autograph

This partnership news came after Hawk’s claimed that a planned remake of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3 and 4 was canceled after Activision Blizzard decided to merge Vicarious Visions with Blizzard. Tony Hawk made this remark during a chat with Twitch Streamer AndyTHPS. Vicarious Visions released Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 + 2 in June 2020, which received critical acclaim from fans. In 1999 he first released the popular “Tony Hawk Pro Skater” game series that sold over 1 million copies in 10 days. Through digital means, Tony has tried to promote skateboarding culture among people for years.

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This month sees two contests going for walks concurrently! One for hot air balloons, and another in partnership with big name atlas for growing voxelized versions of the factions in their sport. The prizes for the pinnacle 10 finishers are huge. I exceptionally advise that everybody who is into voxel modifying, digital artwork, or even building cool stuff in Minecraft must check those contests. The software and entry to the contests, is completely loose.

While The Sandbox may have lost some of its hype to other virtual world / metaverse projects, it’s still a major player in the space. And an important part of The Sandbox ecosystem is user created content. This includes not only the games and Sandbox experiences, but also a large portion of the NPCs, objects, and other entities that are seen in-game! These objects are created using a free, easy to learn software called VoxEdit.

VoxEdit holds regular creation competitions to promote their tool and encourage content creators. General rules for these contests include keeping the entries appropriate (ie, no racism, sexual content, etc), making quality entries, and no plagiarizing. You can read the full list of rules at the VoxEdit Contest Guidelines.

Details on each contest are below. Good luck!

Hot Air Balloon Contest

The primary contest is rather easy. Layout a warm air balloon. But since it’s the sort of fundamental idea, creativity will play an critical component on this contest. Entrants could be compelled to consider how they can make their balloon stand out in a crowd of balloons. There are masses of real-life examples for concept, but given that there aren’t any actual-existence constraints here, i would count on to peer quite a few very particular entries (anybody up for making a steampunk balloon?)!

Balloons should not be larger than 512 voxels tall (which is pretty damn big) and the entire entity should not use a box larger than 512 voxels on each side.

Prizes for this contest are as follows:

• 1st place – 6,000 SAND
• 2nd place – 3,500 SAND
• 3rd place – 2,000 SAND
• 4th to 10th place – 500 SAND each

You will need to create a gif of the animated asset (Gyazo is the suggested tool for this), tweet the gif out while mentioning @VoxEdit and @TheSandboxGame and using the hashtag #VoxEditWeekly . Finally, fill out the official submission form.

Submissions accepted from May 5th through May 12th, 11:59pm UTC. Reviews and voting run from the 13th through the 27th, with results announced on June 2nd.

Star Atlas Faction Contest

The second contest sees a partnership with every other play to earn title, big name atlas. Submissions are open from may 2d through might also fifteenth, eleven:59pm utc. Critiques and voting from may additionally 16th till june 5th, with consequences introduced on june eleventh.

For this contest, designers are tasked with developing an inhabitant from one of the 3 factions — the oni, the ustur, or the dust. The three factions are quite distinctive. And whilst you can simply create some thing based on the photo here, it’d likely be wise to additionally examine approximately the factions to get more info and ideas.

There is also a secondary contest related to Star Atlas. For this one, the goal is to create a headpiece inspired by BLOND:ISH, an artist who creates for both The Sandbox and Star Atlas. This headpiece should fit the standard avatar. Personally, when I hear headpiece and space-theme mentioned together, my first thoughts go to The Fifth Element! And while I’m not really sure what sort of inspiration folks will get from BLOND:ISH, I do look forward to seeing the final creations!

The prizes for this contest are very hefty. First prize alone is worth about $50k at current values! Prizes include SAND tokens and Star Atlas NFTs.

• 1st place – 20k SAND and an Opal Bitboat
• 2nd place – 15K SAND, 2 Calico ATS Enforcers and a Calico Medtech
• 3rd place – 8,000 SAND and an Ogrika Mik, a Busan Thrill of Life and a Calico Medtech
• 4th to 10th place – 1,000 SAND and a Busan Thrill of Life for each

In addition, whoever designs the best headpiece wins Ogrika Mik and Busan Thrill of Life NFTs.

As usual, create a gif of the animated asset, tweet it using the hashtags #VoxEditWeekly and #WeAreStarAtlas while mentioning @VoxEdit, @TheSandboxGame and @StarAtlas. Then fill out the submission form.

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