Platinum Arts Sandbox

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Platinum Arts Sandbox
Developer(s) Michael Tomaino, Kevin Meyer
Initial releaseJune 4, 2007;16 years ago (2007-06-04)
Stable release
2.8.2 / 19 January 2013;10 years ago (2013-01-19)
Operating system Microsoft Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X
Type game engine

Platinum Arts Sandbox is a Video game programming tool. The tool was developed by Michael Tomaino and Kevin Meyer.

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