Game - Boiler

The main menu

Boiler was the first "real" game I ever participated in making and it was the first Game Project in my education as a game designer. It's a strategy game that only utilizes one button per player, thus enabling up to eight players to battle it out. Each player has a cursor that moves randomly around the battlefield. If a player wishes to deploy a unit, s/he simply presses his/her button and the cursor stops for deployment. There are eight different units to choose from, and they are placed using a simple Morse-code of three signals, meaning there are eight different combinations of these signals.

The Battlefield

I took the main role as producer for the game, managing the project as a whole an organizing meetings. I also had the role of designer and illustrator, collaborating with my teammates to bring out the best of the original idea. I also did the (horrible) character portraits and designed the intro movie. I also did a lot of the sound effects. It was a small project, so everybody pitched in where they could be useful, whether it was in graphics or in programming.

The game was awarded with an Honorary Mention at Swedish Game Awards 2007.

The game is available for download here (three parts due to site restrictions):
Part01
Part02
Part03