Factsheet

Developer:
Pixowl
Based in San Francisco, California

Founding date:
April 1st, 2011

Game Website:
thesandbox2.com

Press / Business contact:
[email protected]

Social:
twitter.com/TheSandboxGame
facebook.com/TheSandboxGame
YouTube

Releases:

Address:
1714 Stockton Street 3rd Floor #281
CA 94133, SAN FRANCISCO
UNITED STATES

Phone:
COMPANY_PHONE

Description

The Sandbox Evolution is the sequel to the 2D pixel-art world builder game The Sandbox, which was downloaded on iOS, Android and PC over 16M times!

Game Infos

Product Overview

The Sandbox Evolution is a unique, pixel world-building mobile game that empowers players to craft worlds or destroy the universe!

Featuring a modern pixel art graphic style, The Sandbox Evolution gives players even more freedom and creativity, through improved physics and side-scrolling worlds 10x bigger than its predecessor. The Sandbox Evolution evolves into an easy-to-use game maker that enables players to create a retro-style platformer level in just a matter of seconds!!

When building their worlds, players choose from over 170 elements and design with various entities, game-making blocks, platforms, enemies, portals and characters, pixel art drawing colors, and more.

The Sandbox Evolution also includes an innovative “Quest 100” Challenge mode as well as four imaginative campaigns that introduce players to all the game’s capabilities and offerings – whether its playing with electricity or controlling a Caveman in traditional platformer-style.

Game Features

THE SANDBOX EVOLUTION FEATURES:
NEW HIGHLIGHTS

  • Tap to drop elements, pinch to zoom and pan to scroll. Create or destroy with your fingertips
  • Amazing HD pixel art graphics featuring multiple visual effects, parallax scrolling and more
  • Build worlds up to 10x bigger than in the previous Sandbox game
  • Draw original art or fanboy tributes to your favorite retro characters with over 100 colors
  • Create your own levels using Blocks and other Platforming elements
  • Compose chiptune melodies and become a retro maestro
  • Share your creations in the Online Gallery
  • Save and Sync your progress online with Game Center, Facebook or Email
  • Follow your favorite Players and Top Creators via the Social Menu
  • Bookmark your favorite levels to revisit them anytime you want
CREATE YOUR WORLD PIXEL AFTER PIXEL!
  • Build a 2D pixel world by mixing and matching over 170 elements to discover their interactions
  • Use predefined templates or start from scratch: Music, Pixel Art, Sandbox, Caveman or Avatar
  • Manipulate Natural elements: Mud, Water, Sand, Fire, Metal, Electricity, Acid, Lava and more
  • Many Heroes with different skillsets: Shoot with Arnold, fly with Fujin or play with Hamster, the cutest of all
THE GAME MAKER YOU WANTED
  • Begin with ready-to-use 4x4 pixel blocks, then add platforms, traps and enemies to spice things up
  • Create your own levels using Game Design elements: Controllable Heroes, Platforms, Portals, various Blocks or Spikes
  • Place a controllable hero character in your level to instantly add intuitive, direct control
  • Congratulations! You just made your very own 8bit pixel platformer level in less than a minute :)
ADD LIFE & BUILD YOUR WORLD
  • Bring Life to your worlds with Dogs, Wolves, Bears, Cows, Deer or Sabertooth Tigers
  • Spread foliage and numerous tree varieties to bring beauty to your new world
  • Decorate with Houses, Castles and Igloos, and create life on your world with AI Humans
INTRODUCE TECHNOLOGY... OR DESTROY IT ALL
  • Utilize tech like Batteries, Crosswires, Resistance, Bulbs, Heaters, Coolers, LEDs and multiple Sensors
  • Destroy everything you can with C4, Meteorites, Nitro, TNT or even a Nuke
CAMPAIGNS & DAILY QUESTS
  • Experience the creation of the universe through a full campaign of 15 levels
  • Explore a prehistoric world with the Caveman, and fight Bears and Wolves to recover his child in the Caveman Campaign
  • Learn how to draw pixel art like a real artist in the zen drawing Pixel Art Campaign
  • New Daily Quests, pulled from the best player creations. Challenge the best in the world, or build your levels for a chance to be featured
BROWSE THE GALLERY AND SHARE ONLINE
  • Share your worlds with other players
  • Search worlds by keyword or by tags (pixel art, music, arcade, technology or landscape)
  • Filter worlds based on the Newest or Hottest creations
  • Play the most inspiring worlds and interact with them in various ways
  • Rate the creations on 5 stars
A COMMUNITY OF 730,000 FANS! Each new Update of The Sandbox Evolution will bring even more elements, heroes and campaigns!
You’ll see… no one could ever dream a better world than yours!

Download The Sandbox Evolution and build your world today!

About Pixowl

Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, CA, with development studios in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pixowl, Inc. is a mobile game company. Pixowl’s experienced international team of dynamic innovators strives to meet and exceed the desires of mobile game players worldwide by blending exciting gameplay, comic book art and character-driven storylines.

With the success of its iOS games, The Sandbox & Garfield: Survival of the Fattest, Pixowl has already established itself as a leader in casual mobile games.

For more information about Pixowl, please visit www.pixowl.com or friend and follow them on Facebook and Twitter.

Projects


Videos

Game Trailer YouTube

Introduction Video YouTube

Game Teaser YouTube

How-To: Create a Volcano YouTube

How-To: Create a Game Level YouTube

How-To: Create a Fish Pond YouTube


Images

download all screenshots & photos as .zip (3MB)
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There are far more images available for Pixowl, but these are the ones we felt would be most useful to you. If you have specific requests, please do contact us!


download logo files as .zip (20KB)
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Awards & Recognition

  • "Winner of Most Promising IP Award at Game Connection America Dev Awards 2016" - San Francisco, March 14th
  • "Nomination in 4 Categories at Game Connection America Dev Awards 2016 (Best Mobile / Tablets, Best Casual Game, Most Promising IP, Most Creative & Original)" - San Francisco, March 14th
  • "Nomination in Best Upcoming Game of 2016 for IMGA award." - San Francisco, March 16th, 2016

Team & Repeating Collaborator

Gaston Beherengaray
Studio Manager

Pablo Iglesias
Lead Game Developer

Luciano Lombardi
Creative Director

Guillermo Averbuj
Lead Designer

Martin Matsushita
Level Designer

Leonel Maguet
Level Designer

Federico de Tezanos Pinto
Level Designer

Damian Fernandez
Art Director

Leonardo Vergara
Artist

Julian Lopez Galan
Artist, Animator

Juan Martin Bargas
Artist

Renaud Scheidt
Concept Artist

Sebastian Koziner
Font Artist

Nicolas Miranda
QA Lead

Gustavo Fernandez
QA Lead

Fernando Caceres
QA Tester

Martin Liguori
QA Tester

Petr Yakyamsev
Sound & Music

Arthur Madrid
CEO, Co-Founder

Sebastien Borget
COO, Community Manager

Lucas Shrewsbury
CTO, Lead Developer


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