I love Sid Meier's Pirates! I loved the original back in the '80s, and I love the remake even more. What other games might I love? [more inside]
posted by rikschell on Sep 13, 2009 - 18 answers

I'm trying to make a list of the best open-ended, non-linear sandbox video games of all time. Any suggestions?
posted by micahmertes on May 28, 2009 - 23 answers

Please recommend to me your favorite open-world/sandbox-ish third person shooters for the Xbox 360. [more inside]
posted by Inspector.Gadget on Feb 10, 2009 - 19 answers

SimCity4 question: make my city a sandbox. [more inside]
posted by dirtynumbangelboy on Jun 18, 2008 - 7 answers

What's the best/easiest design to build a sandbox? I'd like to build a sandbox for my boys -- who are currently ages 4, 2 and 2 months, though hopefuly they (and any more kids we happen to have) would use it for a long time. A google search yielded many, many results, but I'd like to know if anybody out there has done it and can point me to a relatively easy design (my skills exist but are limited). I'm thinking 4 feet square would be enough, though if you also have advice for size, I'd like to hear that, too.
posted by odragul on Apr 23, 2008 - 24 answers

Police procedural/gumshoe, sandbox games? [more inside]
posted by Happy Dave on Jan 14, 2008 - 8 answers

Textdrive seems to be a good hosting company for my Ruby code, but I'm rather put off by their no dev/tinkering sandboxing policy. Any alternate suggestions?
posted by furtive on Jan 24, 2006 - 40 answers