How to Blow up a Pipeline - The Game
Do as much damage as you can to the refinery and post your highscore in the comments!
This game was made for the Fxck Capitalism jam 2026 and is inspired by the book "How to Blow up a Pipeline" by Andreas Malm.
In the book, Malm argues for a radical flank in the climate movement and that violence against property might be necessary and justified in the face of the climate crisis. Since world leaders have so far not done what is needed to preserve a liveable world we may have to take it upon ourselves to start dismantling the fossil industry.
The game is designed to be played with keyboard(WASD) and mouse.
Music and explosion sound effect created by Echo & Awe sound
The game also contains sound effects by:
WuxiaScrub
qubodup
dorkster
Michal Baradar
Comments
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Amazing idea! It’s great how this fits into Malm’s ideas and how easy to pick up and fun the gameplay is. And a great choice of theme for the jam.
I like how it emphasizes cooperation between the characters where they can’t progress without each other and are significantly weaker alone.
I'm glad to hear you think it works! Yes, I like that the skills are basic in the sense that anyone could do it (hammering pipes or using a wrench) and that cooperation is vital to make direct action work.
Thank you so much for the nice feedback!
Wow! Strong intro with the sample from Andreas Malm book. Very cool that he allowed you to use the theme and title of his book!
The game is really well polished, I’m impressed that you could do all of that by yourself! Honestly it has almost no flaw in my opinion. I do have two questions:
- Is it possible to blow/destroy everything on the map before the countdown is over? I always got caught before :(
- Bug for feature?: I thought that hiding behind containers would prevent cops from spotting the team, but it seems they can see behing the obstacles lol.
Thank you
Yes, the book is just so good I just had to quote it and couldn't pick just one part, haha. And yes I was thrilled that he replied to my email!
I'm glad you think I managed to put it all together! It can definitely be improved but hopefully it works as a complete packade :)
No, I don't think you can manage to destroy everything. Definitely not with the bombs (since you only have one per character) but I would guess it's not possible to break everything else within the time limit either. You'll just have to settle with trashing as much as possible and getting out of there so you can do it again another time! :D
Yes, the stealth/vision system is not very sophisticated unfortunately! I'm not actually a programmer by trade, I started out as an artist, so my tools are a bit limited, haha. One of the things that could definitely be developed further. Hopefully it doesn't break your immersion too much :P
Thanks again!
Please, add ZQSD (for azerty keyboards) and arrows keys for move controls
I've added arrow keys now. Unfortunately the rest of the keybinds are more tricky to set up another variant right now. Sorry about that!