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Sandbox game, the Glossary

A sandbox game is a video game with a gameplay element that provides players a great degree of creativity to interact with, usually without any predetermined goal, or alternatively with a goal that the players set for themselves.^[1]

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Action-adventure game

An action-adventure game is a video game hybrid genre that combines core elements from both the action game and adventure game genres. Sandbox game and action-adventure game are video game genres.

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Adventure (1980 video game)

Adventure is a video game developed by Warren Robinett for the Atari Video Computer System (later renamed Atari 2600) and released in 1980 by Atari, Inc. The player controls a square avatar whose quest is to explore an open-ended environment to find a magical chalice and return it to the golden castle.

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Alexandra Lange

Alexandra Lange is an American architecture and design critic and author based in New York.

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Architecture

Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction.

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Artificial intelligence in video games

In video games, artificial intelligence (AI) is used to generate responsive, adaptive or intelligent behaviors primarily in non-playable characters (NPCs) similar to human-like intelligence.

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Artificial life

Artificial life (ALife or A-Life) is a field of study wherein researchers examine systems related to natural life, its processes, and its evolution, through the use of simulations with computer models, robotics, and biochemistry.

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Assassin's Creed

Assassin's Creed is a historical action-adventure video game series and media franchise published by Ubisoft and developed mainly by its studio Ubisoft Montreal using the game engine Anvil and its more advanced derivatives.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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Business simulation game

Business simulation games, also known as economic simulation games, or tycoon games, are games that focus on the management of economic processes, usually in the form of a business. Sandbox game and business simulation game are video game genres.

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Capitalism (video game)

Capitalism is a business simulation video game first published in 1995 by Interactive Magic, developed by Enlight for the Macintosh and MS-DOS and designed by Trevor Chan.

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City-building game

A city-building game, or town-building game, is a genre of simulation video game where players act as the overall planner and leader of a city or town, looking down on it from above, and being responsible for its growth and management strategy. Sandbox game and city-building game are video game genres.

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CNN

Cable News Network (CNN) is a multinational news channel and website operating from Midtown Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. Founded in 1980 by American media proprietor Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld as a 24-hour cable news channel, and presently owned by the Manhattan-based media conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), CNN was the first television channel to provide 24-hour news coverage and the first all-news television channel in the United States.

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Creativity

Creativity is the ability to form novel and valuable ideas or works using the imagination.

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De Gruyter

Walter de Gruyter GmbH, known as De Gruyter, is a German scholarly publishing house specializing in academic literature.

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Dreams (video game)

Dreams is a game creation system video game developed by Media Molecule and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 4 in February 2020.

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Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts Inc. (EA) is an American video game company headquartered in Redwood City, California.

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Elite (video game)

Elite is a space trading video game.

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Elsevier

Elsevier is a Dutch academic publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical content.

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Emergent gameplay

Emergent gameplay refers to complex situations in video games, board games, or role-playing games that emerge from the interaction of relatively simple game mechanics.

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Eurogamer

Eurogamer is a British video game journalism website launched in 1999 alongside parent company Gamer Network.

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Eve Online

Eve Online (stylised EVE Online) is a space-based, persistent world massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) developed and published by CCP Games.

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EverQuest

EverQuest is a 3D fantasy-themed massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) originally developed by Verant Interactive and 989 Studios for Windows PCs.

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Far Cry

Far Cry is an anthology franchise of first-person shooter games, all of which have been published by Ubisoft.

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Fortnite

Fortnite is an online video game and game platform developed by Epic Games and released in 2017.

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Freelancer (video game)

Freelancer is a space trading and combat simulation video game developed by Digital Anvil and published by Microsoft Game Studios.

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FT Press

Financial Times Press in the United States and Financial Times Publishing in the United Kingdom are the book publishing imprints related to the Financial Times newspaper.

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Game Developer (website)

Game Developer (known as Gamasutra until 2021) is a website created in 1997 that focuses on aspects of video game development.

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Game mechanics

In tabletop games and video games, game mechanics are the rules or ludemes that govern and guide the player's actions, as well as the game's response to them.

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Gameplay

Gameplay is the specific way in which players interact with a game, and in particular with video games.

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Garry's Mod

Garry's Mod is a 2006 sandbox game developed by Facepunch Studios and published by Valve. Sandbox game and Garry's Mod are sandbox games.

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GeekWire

GeekWire is an American technology news website that covers startups and established technology companies.

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Grand Theft Auto

Grand Theft Auto (GTA) is an action-adventure video game series created by David Jones and Mike Dailly.

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Grand Theft Auto clone

A Grand Theft Auto clone (often shortened to GTA clone) belongs to a subgenre of open world action-adventure video games, characterized by their likeness to the ''Grand Theft Auto'' series in either gameplay, or overall design. Sandbox game and Grand Theft Auto clone are video game genres.

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Grand Theft Auto III

Grand Theft Auto III is a 2001 action-adventure game developed by DMA Design and published by Rockstar Games.

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Hitman (franchise)

Hitman is a stealth game franchise created by Danish developer IO Interactive.

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Intelligent agent

In intelligence and artificial intelligence, an intelligent agent (IA) is an agent acting in an intelligent manner.

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International Game Developers Association

The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) is a nonprofit professional association whose stated mission is to "support and empower game developers around the world in achieving fulfilling and sustainable careers." The IGDA is incorporated in the United States as a 501(c)(6) nonprofit organisation.

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Internet

The Internet (or internet) is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.

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John Smedley (business executive)

John Smedley (born August 27, 1968) is an American business executive.

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Lego

Lego (stylised as LEGO) is a line of plastic construction toys manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company based in Billund, Denmark.

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Life simulation game

Life simulation games form a subgenre of simulation video games in which the player lives or controls one or more virtual characters (human or otherwise). Sandbox game and Life simulation game are video game genres.

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Little Computer People

Little Computer People, also called House-on-a-Disk, is a social simulation game released in 1985 by Activision for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST and Apple II.

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LittleBigPlanet

LittleBigPlanet (LBP - stylised as LittleBIGPlanet) is a puzzle platform video game series created and produced by British developer Media Molecule and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

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Massively multiplayer online game

A massively multiplayer online game (MMOG or more commonly MMO) is an online video game with a large number of players to interact in the same online game world. Sandbox game and massively multiplayer online game are video game genres.

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McFarland & Company

McFarland & Company, Inc., is an American independent book publisher based in Jefferson, North Carolina, that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general-interest adult nonfiction.

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Media Molecule Ltd. is a British video game developer based in Guildford, Surrey.

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is a franchise of stealth games created by Hideo Kojima.

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A metaphor is a figure of speech that, for rhetorical effect, directly refers to one thing by mentioning another.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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Microsoft Flight Simulator

Microsoft Flight Simulator is a series of flight simulator programs for MS-DOS, Classic Mac OS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems.

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Minecraft

Minecraft is a 2011 sandbox game developed and published by Mojang Studios. Sandbox game and Minecraft are sandbox games.

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Mojang Studios

Mojang Studios is a Swedish video game developer based in Stockholm.

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Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord is a strategy action role-playing video game developed and published by TaleWorlds Entertainment, and co-published by Prime Matter.

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Multi-user dungeon

A multi-user dungeon (MUD), also known as a multi-user dimension or multi-user domain, is a multiplayer real-time virtual world, usually text-based or storyboarded. Sandbox game and multi-user dungeon are video game genres.

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Non-game

Non-games are a class of software on the border between video games and toys. Sandbox game and Non-game are video game genres.

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Nonlinear gameplay

A video game with nonlinear gameplay presents players with challenges that can be completed in a number of different sequences. Sandbox game and nonlinear gameplay are Emergent gameplay.

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Nonlinear narrative

Nonlinear narrative, disjointed narrative, or disrupted narrative is a narrative technique where events are portrayed, for example, out of chronological order or in other ways where the narrative does not follow the direct causality pattern of the events featured, such as parallel distinctive plot lines, dream immersions or narrating another story inside the main plot-line.

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NPR

National Public Radio (NPR, stylized as npr) is an American public broadcasting organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.

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Open world

In video games, an open world is a virtual world in which the player can approach objectives freely, as opposed to a world with more linear and structured gameplay. Sandbox game and open world are Emergent gameplay.

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PC Gamer

PC Gamer is a magazine and website founded in the United Kingdom in 1993 devoted to PC gaming and published monthly by Future plc.

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PCGamesN

PCGamesN is a British website with articles about PC gaming and hardware.

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Personal computer

A personal computer, often referred to as a PC, is a computer designed for individual use.

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Physics engine

A physics engine is computer software that provides an approximate simulation of certain physical systems, such as rigid body dynamics (including collision detection), soft body dynamics, and fluid dynamics, of use in the domains of computer graphics, video games and film (CGI).

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Railroad Tycoon

Railroad Tycoon is a business simulation game series.

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Roblox

Roblox is an online game platform and game creation system developed by Roblox Corporation that allows users to program and play games created by themselves or other users.

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Saints Row

Saints Row is a series of action-adventure video games created by Volition and published by THQ and Deep Silver.

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Sandpit

A sandpit (most Commonwealth countries) or sandbox (US and Canada) is a low, wide container or shallow depression filled with soft (beach) sand in which children can play.

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Satya Nadella

Satya Narayana Nadella (born 19 August 1967) is an Indian-American business executive.

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Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is an umbrella term used to group together the distinct but related technical disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.

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Second Life

Second Life is an online multimedia platform that allows people to create an avatar for themselves and then interact with other users and user-created content within a multi-user online virtual world.

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Sid Meier's Pirates!

Sid Meier's Pirates! is a video game created by Sid Meier for the Commodore 64 and published by MicroProse in May 1987.

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SimCity (1989 video game)

SimCity (also known as the retronyms Micropolis or SimCity Classic) is a city-building simulation video game developed by Will Wright, and released for several platforms from 1989 to 1991.

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SimIsle: Missions in the Rainforest

SimIsle: Missions in the Rainforest is a construction and management simulation game published by Maxis in 1995.

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Source (game engine)

Source is a 3D game engine developed by Valve.

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Space flight simulation game

A space flight simulation is a genre of flight simulator video games that lets players experience space flight to varying degrees of realism. Sandbox game and space flight simulation game are video game genres.

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Spore (2008 video game)

Spore is a 2008 life simulation real-time strategy god game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X. Designed by Will Wright, it covers many genres including action, real-time strategy, and role-playing games.

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Star Control

Star Control: Famous Battles of the Ur-Quan Conflict, Volume IV is an action-strategy video game developed by Toys for Bob and published by Accolade.

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Survival game

Survival games are a subgenre of action games which are often set in hostile, intense, open-world environments. Sandbox game and Survival game are video game genres.

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TechRadar

TechRadar is an online publication owned by Future plc and focused on technology.

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The Seven Cities of Gold (video game)

The Seven Cities of Gold is a strategy video game created by Danielle Bunten Berry (credited as Dan Bunten) and Ozark Softscape and published by Electronic Arts in 1984.

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The Sims (video game)

The Sims is a social simulation video game developed by Maxis and published by Electronic Arts in 2000.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Tutorial (video games)

In the context of video game design, a tutorial is any tool that teaches player or non-player characters the rules, control interface, and mechanics of the game.

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User-generated content

User-generated content (UGC), alternatively known as user-created content (UCC), is generally any form of content, such as images, videos, audio, text, testimonials, and software (e.g. video game mods), that has been posted by users on online content aggregation platforms such as social media, discussion forums and wikis.

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Utopia (video game)

Utopia is a 1982 strategy video game by Don Daglow released for the Intellivision and Mattel Aquarius.

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Valve Corporation

Valve Corporation, also known as Valve Software, is an American video game developer, publisher, and digital distribution company headquartered in Bellevue, Washington.

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Video game

A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.

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Virtual world

A virtual world (also called a virtual space) is a computer-simulated environment which may be populated by many simultaneous users who can create a personal avatar and independently explore the virtual world, participate in its activities, and communicate with others.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandbox_game

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See also

Emergent gameplay

Sandbox games

Video game modes

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