Join the next generation of sandboxes.

Sandbox websites are fun. You can do a lot of activities that stimulate a virtual economy and world that keeps you engaged.

But, they are difficult to make, and often feature security risks, many users want to create their own communities purely because It's fun. And at Anomia , we agree with that statement.

A sandbox

We created Castilla , an open source sandbox solution, that's actuall maintained, and secure .

You probably have seen other open source solutions. But they are most likely either leaks or abandoned projects which are unmaintained.

So we asked ourselves. Can we bring something new to the table?

And the anwer is, yes. We can. And we're doing that.

Presenting Castilla

We ❤️ Open Source

Castilla is 100% Open Source and released under a MIT Licensed slightly modified.

⚡ Absurdly Fast and Secure

Unlike most sandboxes, Castilla is built around speed and security. Using state-of-the-art technologies like Express & TypeScript for the backend, and lightweight frontend build tools like Vite with frameworks like Svelte It's by far the most complete sandbox.

🔌 Plug and Play!

Castilla features an automated installer so you only need to focus in what's important:

Bringing a community together.

The installer will not only set up the website information but also your database and other important settings.

🔥 No deprecated software

Many sandboxes use old versions of blender to make their renderers. This methodology is slow and outdated.

Castilla renderer instead is a microservice written in C using RayLib

Blazingly fast and very efficient. [Credits to Logan for helping!]

The License

Castilla has a special Open Source license, which is a fork of the original Apache License

Using Castilla gives you freedom to:
  • Freely modify the software
  • Use the software privately
  • Redistribute the software and host it.
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    But we condition you to:
  • Not to commercialize the software
  • Not to remove the Castilla watermark
  • Always link the original code
  • Always use the Castilla license
  • Credit properly the developers & maintainers of the project.
    • The license is too harsh!

    I (the creator of the project) understand that some of the users might find the license a bit too extreme for an open source project. But the work put into this website is tremendous and most of the developers dont receive enough credit for what they do for free as a contribution for a community.

    What happens if I don't respect the license?

    Unlike Leaks or unmaintained projects , the open-source license ensures that large services (GitHub, DigitalOcean etc...) won't tolerate license disregards and take down any content that's not properly respecting the license listed above.

    Respect the license, and we're cool!

    Lies we are always told.
    If people can see the code they can hack it!

    Luckily that's no more than a lie, code-security relies, well, in code. It doesnt matter if they can see it or not, if the code is secure, it will be secure.

    This is just a source of xxxx

    Sadly a lot of users have lost faith in the Sandbox Community, and I can't really blame them. Projects like this seem unreal because they're too good.

    Castilla does not run sources, It's all code written by different maintainers who love what they do. From scratch, clearly.

    You are going to charge for this project and paywall features.

    Castilla will never be paywalled. Never. It is open source and will always stay like it. I don't plan nor I want to make any money out of this project. It's purely free and open source. Embracing the FOSS freedoms.

    The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0).
    The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
    The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others (freedom 2).
    The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3).

    By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes.