Create to Earn with Latest VoxEdit Contests – Play to Earn

VoxEdit, the official voxel editing software for The Sandbox, continues to host creator competitions, offering opportunities for users to create and earn. This month sees two contests running simultaneously! One for hot air balloons, and another in partnership with Star Atlas for creating voxelized versions of the factions in their game. The prizes for the top 10 finishers are significant. I highly recommend that anyone who is into voxel editing, digital artwork, or even building cool stuff in Minecraft should take a look at these contests. The software and entry to the contests, is completely free.

While The Sandbox may have lost some of its hype to other virtual world / metaverse projects, it’s still a major player in the space. And an important part of The Sandbox ecosystem is user created content. This includes not only the games and Sandbox experiences, but also a large portion of the NPCs, objects, and other entities that are seen in-game! These objects are created using a free, easy to learn software called VoxEdit.

VoxEdit holds regular creation competitions to promote their tool and encourage content creators. General rules for these contests include keeping the entries appropriate (ie, no racism, sexual content, etc), making quality entries, and no plagiarizing. You can read the full list of rules at the VoxEdit Contest Guidelines.

Details on each contest are below. Good luck!

Hot Air Balloon Contest

The first contest is rather simple. Design a hot air balloon. But since it’s such a basic idea, creativity will play an important part in this contest. Entrants will be forced to think of how they can make their balloon stand out in a crowd of balloons. There are plenty of real-life examples for inspiration, but given that there are no real-life constraints here, I would expect to see quite a few very unique entries (anyone up for making a steampunk balloon?)!

Balloons should not be larger than 512 voxels tall (which is pretty damn big) and the entire entity should not use a box larger than 512 voxels on each side.

Prizes for this contest are as follows:

• 1st place – 6,000 SAND
• 2nd place – 3,500 SAND
• 3rd place – 2,000 SAND
• 4th to 10th place – 500 SAND each

You will need to create a gif of the animated asset (Gyazo is the suggested tool for this), tweet the gif out while mentioning @VoxEdit and @TheSandboxGame and using the hashtag #VoxEditWeekly . Finally, fill out the official submission form.

Submissions accepted from May 5th through May 12th, 11:59pm UTC. Reviews and voting run from the 13th through the 27th, with results announced on June 2nd.

Star Atlas Faction Contest

The second contest sees a partnership with another play to earn title, Star Atlas. Submissions are open from May 2nd through May 15th, 11:59pm UTC. Reviews and voting from May 16th until June 5th, with results announced on June 11th.

For this contest, designers are tasked with creating an…