Platinum Arts Sandbox | Windows

Description
[url="http://www.kids.platinumarts.net/"]Platinum Arts Sandbox[/url] is a game design tool that allows users to quickly and easily create their own worlds, even cooperatively. Through the program kids can make their own mazes, castles, forts, cities, etc in minutes. Kids are also a part of the world when they are creating it, so they can watch the results of their changes as they are happening. The main mission of the project will be to add more features and ways for the children to add their own custom content and to make it as easy as possible for them to do so.

It is free, open source, and easy to use. It is quickly picking up steam and is currently being used at a Middle School in Illinois and was used at the Summer Kids Camp at Mildred Elley College. In addition several other schools have contacted the developer about using it in their programs.

This release has many new features over all of the previous version; It has been updated far beyond the 1.2 version in so many ways.
[b]Here are the key improvements featured in this version:[/b]
Driveable Carts via kartmode complete with a hovercart model
New ogre model for 3rd person mode (press 9 to use it!)
Codebase significantly updated including md5 support!
New menu (still very much WIP, but features lots of cool stuff!!)
Many New Maps: Floating Island Castle, House, ParticleShowcase (shows off all the cool particle effects!!), an updated tutorial map and a race track for kartmode!
Lots of code cleanup thanks to the hard work of Hirato!!
New higher quality texture set including lava!
Moving platforms and elevators (featured in the castle map)


Refer to the readme for more information.