Corporate Vandals

Corporate Vandals (site) is an installation game for 8+ players. Players place and rip off stickers, draw with markers, and block with their bodies on 30″ x 30″ wall mounted boards to tackle the themes of the ongoing struggle of independent graffiti artists vs. huge corporations appropriating their style and the involvement of city governments and nonprofits to harm, or help those efforts. The game uses brands from Treachery in Beatdown City, and takes inspiration from graffiti documentaries, real world Hip-Hop & street culture, Go, 868 HACK, and Legacy style (Risk/Pandemic Legacy) board games.

The setup before any players were in the space

Corporate Vandals was initially commissioned by the NYU Game Center for their yearly event No Quarter in 2014. It has also been featured as a part of Indiecade East’s Night Games at the Museum of the Moving Image.

Players engaging with full physicality