Corporate Sabotage game board sketch
Corporate Sabotage game cover

Corporate Sabotage

Corporate Sabotage is a game that me and my group created and designed for our capstone at Arizona State University. I was responsible for the key concept, game play design, game pieces, and visual design of the game. In this game you collect works to invest in the most sectors while slowing everyone else down.

Drawing Board

The Drawing Board

During the second semester of the capstone we completely scrapped our current game that felt really linear and lacked depth. We took a giant white board and threw everything that sticked to it. At the very end of the brainstorm we created a strategy sabotage board game built around the themes of the brutal lifestyle/workplace of the corporate world.

Whiteboard brainstorm session for Corporate Sabotage
Sticky notes brainstorm for Corporate Sabotage

Prototype 1 and 1.5

Prototype 1 and 1.5

This version was an accumulation of everything that my group came up with, made into reality for play test. One of the key concepts we had to realize was that just putting the cards or board into real space to play with even if it was a rough design was crucial to accelerating our progress.

Corporate Sabotage prototype 1 board
Corporate Sabotage prototype 1.5 board
Sabotage cards prototype
Corporate Sabotage game screenshot

Prototype 2

Prototype 2

After plenty of play testing we realized there was some clunky game play and needed to adjust how to interact and play with other people, how to limit resource holding, and make the game more enjoyable. We started cementing some of the sector abilities that would help you through the game. Our game prototype was also chosen to be at the Herberger Institute Day representing our degree program.

Corporate Sabotage prototype 2 board
Audit cards version 1
Audit cards version 3
Audit cards rework

Final Version

Final Version

The final version of Corporate Sabotage brought together all the lessons learned through prototyping and play testing into a polished, complete board game experience.

Corporate Sabotage final game board
Corporate Sabotage final version cover
Corporate Sabotage at Herberger Institute Day showcase