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"The Sandbox" is a powder game for iPhone/Android. It's fun, but they try to get you to buy "mana" to unlock stuff that you need to use in the normal course of the game. Fuck that.

We can hack the Android version to drop the price of elements to near-free.

To do this:

  1. Get the Sandbox APK by backing up the installed game (ES File Manager's App Manager can do this)
  2. Transfer APK to PC
  3. Extract it as a ZIP file
  4. Edit assets/shop.plist to drop prices to 3 mana for each element
  5. Rezip the files
  6. Use the "testsign.jar" tool to sign the ZIP, thus making it an installable APK:
    java -jar testsign.jar hacked.zip ready-to-install.apk
  7. Uninstall the non-hacked game from your device
  8. Copy the hacked APK to your device
  9. Install the hacked APK.

All the elements should now cost just 3 mana.

how_to_hack_the_sandbox_game.1362924022.txt.gz · Last modified: 2013/03/10 07:00 by tkbletsc

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