3D Print Your Life
By: The Sandbox
Tags: Gaming, Blockchain Game, 3D Printing, Steam

3D Print Your Life

Let’s print a new world — available exclusively in The Sandbox

About the Sandbox

The Sandbox Game is a community-driven gaming platform that empowers game makers to create, publish, and monetize a myriad of unique experiences on a decentralized platform with cryptocurrency payments.

Our development team is constantly working to make The Sandbox a game-making experience that will stand out as a new standard in world-building games, with millions of user-created 3D voxel assets and games available as NFTs on the blockchain.

Our Game Maker’s Fund supports artists from all over the world to help them create amazing experiences in the Game Maker…

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The game

Have you ever tried a 3D printer? Based on the CNC concept (Computer Numerical Control) a 3D printer helps you to build solid objects. 3D printing has been around for several years but only in more recent years has it become more accessible for everyday people. You can create a complete world using this machine. It’s like The Sandbox Game itself, and we love this game’s mix of science, building, education, and fun.

3D Print your life is a game where you work at a 3D printing shop meeting all kinds of people who use 3D printing to fulfill their different orders.

A variety of things could be built with a 3D printer, in areas like medicine, arts, design, and more. And that’s the main focus of this game.

Through the game you will learn about different types of 3D machines, the filaments, and the things you could create while playing. When you combine science with gaming, you open the door for people of all ages and backgrounds to experience the educational side of gaming and the fun side of science. With gaming, this also allows for people to experiment with different science fields in a safe and economical way. With science this allows people to discover new things while learning about various subjects in an engaging and non-complicated way.

The Assets

From 3D printing prosthetics to toys, there are various items customers will order. But not every person uses 3D printing the same way or for its intended purpose.

You’ll work with your boss and coworker but you’ll also meet 15+ NPCs, each with their own stories and orders. Customers won’t always come by the shop to pick up their orders, you’ll have to deliver some orders by mail or in person.

All the assets bring to life the different ideas, objects, and creations.

Science her way: meet the STEAM nerd 👩‍🔬 creator of 3D Print Your Life

We Interview Erica Wagner,👩‍🔬 the scientific-creator behind the game

Recently Erica Wagner, the science-girl 👩‍🔬 who is creating the experience with the support of Game Maker’s Fund of The Sandbox, explained how some assets could be built.

Why are people going to love the game?

This game has a diverse cast of people who use 3D printing in their lives. I believe this game will excite people when they see a character that looks like them when they haven’t seen that before in a game. This is going to facilitate conversations.

What do you like the most about the development of this game?

I loved figuring out how to make a human that complied with the human size guidelines before we as creators had access to the medium human template. I needed a way to make sure my objects were to scale. Sure, I knew a medium human was slightly shorter than two blocks (or 64 voxels) but that didn’t tell me where their waist was to compare table heights too. It was a fun challenge of only having promotional images and guidelines to go off of for making my human NPCs.

What things about VoxEdit / Game Maker helped you generate this new experience?

It was helpful already having rigged and animated human templates in VoxEdit. This made it easy to quickly test the different pieces. As an artist, it was exciting to watch my human NPCs come to life. What was really nice about the Game Maker was how user friendly it is to mock up a level for a game. It reminds me of building Minecraft adventure maps with my brother, but with more power and functionality to add for different assets. The Game Maker Fund has allowed me to create a game right now, instead of just starting my game developer journey in 2023. With college on my plate at the time, I didn’t think I could make room or devote energy to learning how to make games. This opportunity has shown me I can start learning right now, and that I don’t have to wait to finish my higher level education before working on my life goals.

The Sandbox Game and Game Makers Fund teams are happy to support the development of this amazing experience.

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