Sandbox games are a unique genre, where developers have the opportunity to create a system from which players\u00a0can carve out their own goals and objectives to complete.<\/p>\n
The fun is in discovering how the game environment\u00a0works. So how can programmers make sure that they’re building a good sandbox game?\u00a0<\/p>\n
In this 2013 GDC talk, Maxis’ Dan Moskowitz\u00a0explains the\u00a0methodology for building sandbox games through providing\u00a0specific examples from the 2013 edition of SimCity’s<\/em> simulation, player tools, and feedback mechanisms.<\/p>\n Moskowitz\u00a0also goes into the advantages and drawbacks of\u00a0this “discovery-based” methodology that he discusses, with some\u00a0lessons including determining granularity, finding and re-using patterns that work, and exploring mechanics.<\/p>\n Programmers interested in learning how SimCity’s<\/em> sandbox was built\u00a0can now watch the talk completely free via the official GDC YouTube channel!<\/a><\/p>\n In addition to this presentation, the\u00a0GDC Vault<\/a>\u00a0and its accompanying\u00a0YouTube channel<\/a>\u00a0offers numerous other free videos, audio recordings, and slides from many of the recent\u00a0Game Developers Conference events<\/a>, and the service offers even more members-only content for GDC Vault subscribers.<\/p>\n Those who purchased All Access passes to recent events like GDC or VRDC\u00a0already have full access to GDC Vault, and interested parties can apply for the individual subscription via\u00a0a GDC Vault subscription page<\/a>. Group subscriptions are also available: game-related schools and development studios who sign up for GDC Vault Studio Subscriptions can receive access for their entire office or company by contacting staff via the\u00a0GDC Vault group subscription page<\/a>. Finally, current subscribers with access issues can\u00a0contact GDC Vault technical support<\/a>.<\/p>\n Gamasutra and GDC are sibling organizations under parent UBM Americas.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sandbox games are a unique genre, where developers have the opportunity to create a system from which players\u00a0can carve out their own goals and objectives to complete. The fun is in discovering how the game environment\u00a0works. So how can programmers make sure that they’re building a good sandbox game?\u00a0 In this 2013 GDC talk, Maxis’ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15255,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}