Glossary

The vocabulary of the studio, the engine and the platform, in alphabetical order. Each definition links to the page that covers it in detail.

Asset

A reusable object of the game: voxel grid, primitive build or imported model. A document holds 96 at most; entities point at them. Learn more

Boolean operation

Union, subtraction or intersection of a primitive with the pieces listed before it in the same bone (op). Learn more

Claim

Collecting a settled epoch’s share for a game. The share goes to the game’s current creator, once, and only expires after 90 days. Learn more

Clip

A named animation: a duration, a loop and keyframe tracks per part. The runtime picks the clip from the state (idle, move, jump, hit, attack…). Learn more

Draft registry

The publishing mode while the contract is not deployed: your wallet signs the game’s hash and the platform lists it with a d-… id. Learn more

Entity

A thing placed in the world: an asset (or none, for a marker), a role, a position, a rotation, a scale and parameters. Learn more

Epoch

A 24-hour period counted from the contract’s deployment. Plays are counted per epoch, and each finished epoch is settled once. Learn more

Harvest

Contract function, callable by anyone, that pulls the token’s creator fees from Pons into the reward vault. Learn more

Hash (keccak256)

The keccak256 of the canonicalised document (sorted keys). The same game always has the same hash; it is what goes on-chain and what names the stored file. Learn more

HDRI

A high dynamic range panoramic image used as sky and environment lighting. The library offers 28. Learn more

HUD

The overlay on top of the game: score, timer, health, lives, coins, messages and chosen variables. Learn more

Mode

The kind of game (race, platformer, arena, runner, explore, capture the flag, tower defense): it provides controller, camera and win conditions. Learn more

Mood

A preset that applies sky, hour, fog, light, weather and post-processing at once (sunset, neon night, misty forest…). Learn more

Part

A rigid piece of an asset, with its pivot and an optional parent. Animation tracks move parts. Learn more

Pathfinding (A*)

How enemies and NPCs find their way on a navigation grid, around water and obstacles. Learn more

Pons

The Robinhood Chain token launcher where $SANDBOX will launch, with the Sandbox contract as creator fee recipient. Learn more

Primitive

A parametric shape (box, sphere, cylinder, cone, torus, capsule, extrude, lathe…) with a PBR material, the building block of mesh assets. Learn more

Remix

A copy of a published game opened in your studio. The document keeps the original game’s id in meta.remixOf. Learn more

Robinhood Chain

The blockchain where the game registry, the rewards and the token live. Learn more

Role

What an entity does: player start, coin, enemy, door, spawner, turret, waypoint… 23 roles in all. Learn more

Rule

No-code logic: an event, conditions on variables, actions. A rule can be set to fire only once. Learn more

Runtime

The engine that runs a game. It is the same on the studio’s Test step, on the game page and in previews. Learn more

SandboxGame

The type of the JSON document holding a whole game: meta, assets, terrain, entities, rules, variables, game rules, settings, HUD and scripts. Learn more

Settle

Settling a finished epoch, once every 24 hours: the operator writes the games, their weights and the amount to share on-chain. Learn more

Spawner

An entity that spawns an asset at a regular interval, within a radius, up to a simultaneous maximum and a total. Learn more

Tag

A free label put on an entity. Rules and scripts target entities by tag; * targets them all. Learn more

Template

A complete, playable game used as a starting point. There are eight; they never count for rewards. Learn more

Tip

ETH sent to a game, paid 100 % to its creator. Learn more

Trigger

A local entity event (touch, interact with E, stomp) that runs actions, once or every time, with an optional required key. Learn more

Variable

A named value (number, boolean or text) read and written by rules, triggers and scripts, and shown in the HUD if you want. Learn more

Voxel

A coloured cube in a grid. Voxel assets are grids of 8 to 64 per side with a colour palette. Learn more

Watchdog

The mechanism that terminates a stuck script Worker and starts a fresh one with the same scripts. Learn more

Waypoint

A path point. In tower defense, waves follow the waypoints toward your base. Learn more

Web Worker

The isolated thread where scripts run, with no access to the page, the DOM or the network. Learn more

Weight

The measure that splits a 24-hour epoch’s vault: sum over wallets of min(plays, 10), plus a tenth of anonymous plays capped at 20 % of the signed weight. Learn more