Falling-sand game

A falling sand game is a genre of video game which is a subset of Sandbox games where it must use a Two dimensional particle game engine.

A user-created sandbox in The Powder Toy

They allow the user to place particles of different elements on a "canvas" which can interact with other particles in various ways leading to complex emergent behaviours.[1] As Sandbox games, they generally have an emphasis on free-form gameplay, relaxed rules, and minimal goals.[2]

History
Title Year Platform Details
Falling sand game 2005 Java A.K.A "Hell of Sand" or "World of sand". The first game of its type[3][4][5][6]
wxSand 2006 PC The first standalone version[7]
Powder Game 2007 Java, HTML5, Android, iOS multi-platform with liquid simulation[8]
This is Sand 2008 Flash added changing the colour of the sand[9]
The Powder Toy 2010 Windows, GNU-Linux, OS X, Android has liquid simulation[10][8]
The Sandbox 2012 Flash, PC, Android, iOS A whole game franchise going into 3D aswell[11][12]
Noita 2020 PC a hybrid of "falling sand" style game with a Roguelike[8][13]

The "falling sand" genre was first popularised online as a web-based Java applet on the Dofi-Blog (Japan) in 2005[3][4] and then was enlarged and rehosted as the "Falling sand game"[4] which gave the genre its name after that it started to become popular.[14][5]

The "Powder Game" introduced pressure based fluid simulation which allows for more complicated behaviour of fluids and gases, for example water equalisation. The Powder Game also popularised controllable characters, which Noita then adopted making a Roguelike with sophisticated playable characters and enemies.[15][16][13]

References
  1. bittker, max. "making sandspiel". maxbittker.com.
  2. "The History and Theory of Sandbox Gameplay". www.gamasutra.com.
  3. "DOFI-BLOG どふぃぶろぐ". ishi.blog2.fc2.com.
  4. "Overview". Falling Sand Game.
  5. "Falling Sand Game". boredhumans.com.
  6. Carless, Simon (2005-12-24). "Welcome to the World of Sand". GameSetWatch. Retrieved 2011-06-21.
  7. Quilty-Harper, Conrad (2006-02-15). "Falling Sand: The Sequel". Joystiq. Retrieved 2011-06-21.
  8. "From falling sand to Falling Everything: the simulation games that inspired Noita". rockpapershotgun.com.
  9. "Digital Play: This Is Sand". wired.com.
  10. "Explosive fun for students". edgalaxy.com.
  11. "the sandbox". metacritic.com.
  12. "The Sandbox gaming platform receives $2.5m investment". finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
  13. "Sand Physics Go Wild in Noita". techraptor.net.
  14. "Time Killer: The Sand Game (It's Great Fun)". PC World.
  15. "Noita: a Game Based on Falling Sand Simulation". 80.lv.
  16. "Noita wiki - Falling Sand Game". gamepedia.com.
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