Creating educational, family-friendly games since 2017.

Spelfabriken is the alias of me, indie board game designer Joel Ek. I am based in Norrköping, Sweden and focus on developing educational games that are challenging and fun for the entire family.

I am currently looking for partners that would like to help me take my designs from prototypes into finished products. If you work in the publishing business and find my projects interesting, let me know!

My fifth board game, Lunar Outpost, is now available for ordering through The Game Crafter!

My fourth board game, Home Delivery, is now available for ordering through The Game Crafter!

My third board game, Mine Carts, is now available for ordering through The Game Crafter!

My third card game, Prima Materia, is now available for ordering through The Game Crafter!

My second card game, Interference!, is now available for ordering through The Game Crafter!

All games now have action shots showcasing gameplay and components!

My first card game, Homebrew, is now available for ordering through The Game Crafter!

The Spelfabriken website is launched!

This is the catalogue of game prototypes that I have developed.

It's the future. People communicate using an interconnected computer network and industrial techno is the only remaining musical genre. Mankind has mastered technology and is finally about to cross the final frontier, leaving Earth and colonizing space.

Since the recent discovery of vast resource deposits below the Moon's surface, four of the most wealthy and prominent nations have taken aim at establishing lunar outposts.

In Lunar Outpost, the players take on the roles as the supreme and beloved leaders of the four nations. Lead your nation to glory and you will be forever remembered in the history books. Lead your nation to defeat and your entire nation will be forgotten as a parenthesis in history.

Welcome to the space age.

Why go to the same boring job every day in order to receive a steady and predictable income when you can start working in the gig economy? The gig economy allows you to get all of the drawbacks and none of the benefits while struggling to make ends meet.

In Home Delivery, the players take on work as traveling popsicle sellers. The players take turns placing rectangular city tiles forming the road network of the city. In some parts of the city, there lives popsicle-craving residents with very specific tastes. They will gladly purchase a popsicle but it will have to be of the correct flavor.

Each player can take on tasks from the local ice cream parlors, delivering a set of popsicles to the residents. For every task that a player completes, they are awarded with a small paycheck. The players may save their paychecks to pay for things like rent and food or may use their pay to gain a competitive advantage over their fellow popsicle sellers.

Have you ever dreamt of owning your very own ice cream truck? Well forget about that. You're part of generation rent and this is the gig economy so all you can afford is to rent one and hope that your investment pays off!

So what are you waiting for? Quit your day job and become part of the new economy. It's gonna be huge.

Mine Carts is a game in which the players together explore an abandoned mine, looking for precious ores!

The abandoned mine is represented by a six by six grid on a board. The players start with two player figures each at the edges and take turns placing square tiles with tracks leading into the mine. They follow the tracks and may stumble upon ore deposits when doing so. Mining an ore deposit yields an ore token that may be more or less valuable.

Throughout the game, players will find themselves colliding with other players. Players that collide will loose their player figures and will, when no player figures remain, be eliminated from the game. However, eliminated players haven't automatically lost the game. They may still win, granted that they managed to collect the most precious ores before being eliminated!

Clever players may find ways to mine the ore deposits while also eliminating other players!

The elements have become misaligned and are causing all sorts of trouble in the world. Severe drought, hurricane after hurricane and yet another super hero movie that no one asked for are just some of the plagues the world has had to live through. In Prima Materia, the players struggle to align the elements in an effort to make all things good again.

The elements are represented by sixteen double-sided cards showing one of the four classical elements on each side. These cards are arranged in a grid of four by four cards. Each player holds a secret hand of action cards as well as a card with a secret target sequence. The players use their action cards to change the elemental cards and gain points for each sequence they manage to form.

Will the elements realign and introduce stability in the world? Or will we face a future of starvation, war and reggaeton music?

Interference! is a game in which two players attempt to save the world from utter destruction.

You are the operators of a missile control mainframe and due to a slight human error, the total annihilation of the world is looming! The systems have locked you out and you can only rely on your hacking skills to regain control.

The mainframe's lock is represented by four double-sided cards that are shared between the two players. Both players hold a hand of secret action cards as well as a card showing a secret target sequence.

Using their action cards, the players struggle to change the lock sequence into their target sequence. This will break a layer of the mainframe's security system and help the players regain control.

Will the two players prevail and save the world or should we all seek immediate shelter? The fate of the world is in your hands!

In Homebrew: The Potion Brewing Game, the players venture down into the haunted basement of their house. The players are attempting to brew magic potions and need to find the correct ingredients, but someone has left the basement in a terrible mess!

In every room of the basement, one of six different magic ingredients is to be found. The players each hold secret recipe cards and take turns exploring the basement by placing new rooms next to the existing ones.

When a player manages to find the ingredients required to brew their special magic potion, they gain a point. The player having brewed the most potions when the basement is fully explored becomes the potion master and wins the game!

Mixed Signals: The Circuit Board Game is a game in which two players compete for the domination of a circuit board.

The players play as low and high voltage (or zeroes and ones if you prefer) and take turns placing triangular circuit tiles on the board. This in an effort to cause favorable voltage transitions in the circuit.

The goal for each player is to place all of their voltage tokens on the board by getting a majority of the circuit to carry their voltage. This is not as easy as it might sound since your opponent can and will hijack your sections of the circuit!

The game starts out with only two input tiles, one carrying a low voltage and one carrying a high voltage. Throughout the game, you will find signal mixing tiles and even new input tiles that make the game increasingly challenging, complex and fun!

Land Ahead! is a fast-paced game in which players together explore an unexplored island. The players take turns placing six-sided island tiles, forming the coast lines, locations and roads of the island.

The game is highly strategic as tiles will have to be placed in ways that benefit you, forming roads for your player figure to follow. This while preventing other players from reaching the island’s locations before you!

Every time a location is discovered, a round event token is placed on top of the location. These tokens depict villages, castles and forests and trigger events when reached by one of the players.

Will you befriend a stray animal that can help you on your journey or will you be attacked by a fearsome monster? Perhaps find powerful equipment or valuable treasure?

During the game you will improve your abilities by finding equipment and placing it on the corresponding equipment slot of your player tile. All equipment will improve either your offense, defense or movement ability to some extent.

Will you become powerful enough to defeat the monsters and win the game as the monster slayer? Maybe you’ll become great at evading attacks while collecting treasure and win the game as the treasure hunter?

One thing is for sure - no two games will ever be the same!

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