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The community has shown interest in having a Sandbox Halloween event, so let's do it :)
Here is the event thread
Here is where the maps will be posted for the event.  Check out Halloween House and see if you have what it takes to find all the pumpkins!

IMPORTANT NOTE - Because of a death in the family I will not be able to host this event. However, I can keep my server up in /bananarelay with save the banana and also people can submit their maps for 8pm and there can be the Halloween even like that with lots of maps to play. Also if anyone wants to join the IRC that is fine but not sure how many people will be around. Any suggestions and ideas to this are welcome. I do plan to try to at least do a halloween makeover of house for Friday :) and maybe the hedgemaze. Doing something Sunday might be a possibility as well though no guarantees. Let's get some feedback :)

The Date and Time: starting 8pm EST on Friday (day before Halloween) is when I thought would be the best time so people from the West Coast would be out of school and work hopefully. We could certainly start earlier as well for any of our Eastern Hemisphere friends. Let me know what you guys think and we can work something out :) We'll meet up in our Developer Chatroom aka IRC. You can join with just one click and check here for more info on that!

Let me know if you are interested, it would be good to get a head count to see if we'll need more than one server up to host all of this or what. Thanks!

The Event:
Ideas for the event include:
- Competing in multiplayer on Save The Banana in BananaRelay mode (perhaps a Halloween makeover to the map)
- Creating mazes (corn field like mazes) and perhaps including letters to find and having to figure out what the maps secret message is, first one to do is the winner! This would be done on a multiplayer server.
- Chaze I believe is creating a haunted house
- Perhaps we could even have a competition on scariest/most fun Halloween map? I know there isn't a lot of time, but gameplay and fun is more important than awesome looks. Even single player maps could be submitted so that people could trigger sound effects and such :)

More ideas are certainly welcome! Perhaps we could have an encore of the event on Sunday too. Saturday I just think will be too tough to get anything going since it is actually Halloween and I for one will be out with my shopping cart costume :D

ALSO be on the lookout for a new patch soon!

Take care and thanks for your interest in Sandbox!
-mike
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morphfox
morphfox Nov 21 2009, 11:19am says:

They should put a physics engine like bullet in this game.......it would make it more awesome :D

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MattmanDude
MattmanDude Nov 12 2009, 2:18pm says:

I got this game. It was kind of fun at first, but it's very minimal in what you can make as games go. Sure you can do "Find a bunch of apples" or "rescue this character" etc(by the way... the developers might consider adding some human beings as models) but there's not a lot of stuff you can really make game-wise. You can make some pretty cool maps if you're good at it. But maps are nothing without something to do.

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joshrules599
joshrules599 Oct 30 2009, 8:23pm says:

Will this need duel core processer?

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hirato
hirato Oct 31 2009, 12:24am replied:

you might like to consider doing some reading...
En.wikipedia.org

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ben82
ben82 Oct 10 2009, 8:04am says:

awesome, ... great job!

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fdslk
fdslk Oct 9 2009, 5:08pm says:

Awesome engine.

I've downloaded yesterday thinking "OH No! Not another let's make the noob a pro with wizards and templates" And I must admit I was impressed with the shaders, the interesting grass system, and the dynamic shadows and the incredible open ended support.

This may not be for oblivion or crysis, but sure you can make extremely nice and goodlooking simple games.

If you ever wanted to a very minimalist game this is worthy a try, and this thing don't need a extremely powerful computer to enjoy it. I run it with 30 fps (and more) in a Pentium III 800 mhz with 512 ram :)

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Damagd
Damagd Oct 9 2009, 10:22am says:

soo can you make a war with loads of men with guns ?

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ichiman14
ichiman14 Nov 18 2009, 1:16pm replied:

try sauerbraten.org

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The_ewok
The_ewok Oct 9 2009, 6:36am says:

i haven't actually downloaded it yet, im downloading it tomorrow. but are there tutorials for importing custom models and textures into the editor?

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hirato
hirato Oct 9 2009, 10:14am replied:

a LOT less than.. pretty much any other "modern" game on the market
but I'd say the following

ram: 512MB
GPU NVIDIA 6600GT, equivalent or better (much older cards will work fine)
CPU 1 GHz or better (this shouldn't be a problem)

as far as peripherals go, a mouse and keyboard :D

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