Platinum Arts Sandbox Free 3D Game Maker is a free open source 3D Game Maker, world creator and 3D Game Design program currently being used in many schools throughout the world that allows kids and adults to create their own video games, worlds, levels, adventures and quests, even cooperatively! The goal is to make it accessible to kids but also powerful enough for full game projects. With a simple click and roll of a mouse wheel users can modify the world however they want. In the words of a nine year old Sandbox whiz I babysit for, “Press Edit and go fulfill your dreams!”. Now features new game modes such as sidescroller, machinima, kartmode, RPG, and more!
Can you expound on the graphical overhaul? I'm guessing at a few things here (like texture bumpmap, spec shading, etc) but could you go into detail?
Most of the info in on the steam greenlight! We've changed how our engine renders lighting, textures, and mapmodels. Before it was static lightmaps that did not change. Now we have fully dynamic lightning that can be customized based on the weather. Among other things, the engine is much less strenuous on the system than most others, similar to the Source engine; I think the Source engine is one of the greatest engines to have ever existed for the time.
I could get into every nitty, gritty spec here, but if you go to our page you can find out everything!