Sandbox, the Garry's Mod successor, appears to have resumed development

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Garry Newman—creator of gleefully chaotic indie physics sandbox Garry's Mod—has been getting up to mischief on Twitter by teasing Garry's Mod 2, but it looks like that's not quite what he's working on. 

While it looks like he's using the announced in 2015.

Newman told interview last December, he said Sandbox had the potential to become something like Garry's Mod 2.  Unfortunately, work on it had been "paused", with Newman saying that if development wasn't resumed in 2020 then the game was "probably dead forever". 

So it looks like it's been brought back from the brink, though Newman is still being coy about it on Twitter.

The original Garry's Mod—which celebrated its 15th birthday in December—holds up remarkably well for its age. It receives regular updates (the latest was on March 17) and remains popular with players, still placing high up in Steam's Top 100. Sandbox (alias Garry's Mod 2?) looks set to build on the original's success while adapting to the changes in the gaming landscape since 2004, with the introduction of VR being the biggest selling point discussed so far.