GameMaker Sandbox

GameMaker Sandbox
URL	http://sandbox.yoyogames.com/
Status	Closing
Archiving status	Saved!
Archiving type	Unknown
Project source	gamemaker-sandbox-grab
Project tracker	gamemakersandbox
IRC channel	#archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

GameMaker Sandbox was launched by YoYo Games in 2007 to host and share user-created video games made by their GameMaker software, including games from Games Showcase (now defunct) uploaded as early as 2005. As well as uploading games, developers could upload images to showcase their game. Users could use commenting, rating and reviewing features on the game's profiles. A forum was also available for developers to ask for help and talk about games.

Archives

Web pages and downloads saved as various WARC files at the archiveteam_gamemaker collection. You can browse them in the Wayback Machine.

A very small number of games were missed. The remaining games can be found here, with the actual archive folders here (look for the filenames with "3kxjz" in it).

Using the Wayback Machine

1. To find a game, use this list. For example, find Crimelife 2 and get the game ID "14296-crimelife-2".
2. Then construct the URL to get http://sandbox.yoyogames.com/games/14296-crimelife-2.
3. Enter that URL with /* at Wayback Machine to list all URLs for that game. For example, https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://sandbox.yoyogames.com/games/14296-crimelife-2/*
4. Find the download URL on that list. It will have "send_download" as part of it.