About & Contact

Welcome to Sand Pit Online, a little corner of the internet where Tuesday-afternoon creativity flows. It's a falling-sand physics sandbox: pour substances into the pit, watch them settle and react, and capture the results for others to see. Design your own materials with their own physical and chemical properties to fill the pit. Save a pit, share it, and see what other people cook up!

Where it came from

This time-wasting toy started life as a humble university project, inspired by an old indie trinket: "Powder Game". It was a basic Java project that iterated on the classic concept in its addition of customizable substances. Today, as I perpetually struggle to produce ideas with economic value, the project has come to exist in a lighthearted, web-hosted format.

Sand Pit Online is designed, built, and maintained by Michael Smith, a single independent developer. There's no big studio behind the curtain and no team of a hundred...just one person who occasionally got fed up with corporate code and wanted to pour some effort into something of his own. That means every substance, every fix, and every late-night improvement comes from the same pair of hands. It also means your feedback lands directly with the person who can actually do something about it.

Get in touch

Found a bug? Have an idea for the project? Just want to say hi or show off a pit you're proud of? I'd love to hear from you. Drop a message below and it'll come straight to my inbox.