Boss-Man

The Video Game — runs on macOS 14.6 or later. An Office Space inspired maze game built with SpriteKit and Swift.

Download the DMG

https://github.com/macOS26/Boss-Man/releases

Object of the Game

You are PETE, an office worker (blue shirt, orange tie) trapped in a 37×17 grid of cubicles. Each level, you must:

1. Eat every glowing yellow dot in the cubicle aisles.
2. Visit the four office machines (printer, fax machine, cover sheet stack, book binder) to assemble a TPS report.
3. Drop the completed TPS report into a TPS Delivery Box (the brown box) to bank the points.
4. Avoid the four bosses patrolling the office.
5. Grab a Gold Disc to flip the bosses into Blue Mode for a short window — then chase them down for bonus points.

Clear the dots, deliver at least one TPS report, and you advance to the next level.

Controls

• Arrow keys or WASD — move PETE
• Mouse / trackpad — point-to-move (PETE walks toward the cursor)
• Space — start a new round / continue from the title screen
• ESC — return to title screen
• Joystick and DPAD support coming soon

Lives

• Start with 3 lives, capped at 5.
• Every TPS report you deliver grants +1 life (until you hit the cap).
• Lose a life when a boss catches you outside of Blue Mode.
• Lose all your lives → game over.

TPS Reports

To assemble a report you must visit every required machine on the floor:

Machine	Emoji
TPS Printer	🖨️
TPS Fax Machine	📠
TPS Cover Sheet	📄
TPS Book Binder	📚

Once all four are checked off, walk over the TPS Delivery Box (📦) to deliver the report. The HUD shows ✅ for completed items and ❌ for missing ones.

• Report value scales with the level: level × 100 + 100 points.
• Delivery awards +1 life (up to the 5-life cap).
• Getting caught by a boss before delivering wipes the in-progress report.

Bosses

Each boss has its own color, AI personality, and speed — modeled after Ms. Pac-Man's ghosts (Blinky / Pinky / Inky / Sue).

Boss	Shirt	Tie	Behavior	Speed
BILL	🟥 Red	Black	Direct chase (Blinky)	1.00×
DOM	🟪 Pink (75% α over white)	Purple + 40% black	Ambush 4 tiles ahead (Pinky)	0.85×
BOB	🟦 Teal	Blue + 20% black	Flanker — pivots 2 tiles off PETE's path (Inky)	0.78×
STAN	🟧 Orange	Red + 10% black	Timid scatter — backs to corner when too close (Sue)	0.70×

On every 12th level (12, 24, …) the entire roster turns all-black (MIB theme) and wears sunglasses.

Blue Mode

Grab a Gold Disc 🟡 (4 per floor) and all active bosses flip into Blue Mode for ~20 seconds:

• Shirt → systemBlue + 20% black
• Tie fill → systemYellow, outline → RGB yellow
• Eyes → systemBlue + 50% black
• Bosses flee from PETE
• Catch them for 100 → 200 → 400 → 800 points (streaked per Gold Disc)

A boss caught three times in a single Blue Mode is permanently rebuilt at its spawn corner.

Travelers

A traveler enters the maze every ~30 seconds from the right tunnel and wanders to the left tunnel. Catch one for bonus points. The traveler rotates by level (cycles every 12 levels):

Level	Traveler	Points
1	🐟 Fish	100
2	🍩 Donut	200
3	☕️ Coffee	400
4	🥤 Soda Cup	800
5	🍎 Apple	1,000
6	Shiny Red Stapler (PNG sprite)	2,000
7	🍉 Watermelon	3,000
8	🧇 Waffle	4,000
9	🍦 Ice Cream	5,000
10	🍰 Cake	6,000
11	👀 Eyes	7,000
12	👁️ Big Eye	8,000
13+	Cycle repeats (with harder mazes)	…

The HUD's top-right "trail" shows which travelers have appeared so far this cycle; the leftmost is the current level's traveler.

Level Editor

Press the LEVEL EDITOR button from the title screen to design your own floors:

• 15-tile palette: floor, dot, wall, hideout, the four machines, brown box, gold disc, PETE spawn, and BILL/DOM/BOB/STAN spawns.
• Left-click paints the selected tile; right-click toggles dot↔wall (any other tile → dot).
• Tunnels are auto-detected — paint a floor gap in the perimeter wall to create a tunnel pair.
• 24 bundled levels. Custom edits save to ~/Library/Application Support/Boss-Man/levels.json.
• Shortcuts: ⌘S save · ⌘Z undo · ⇧⌘Z redo · ⌘⌫ clear · ⌘C/⌘V copy/paste level · ⌘P playtest · ⌘R reveal file · ← → previous/next · ESC back.
• Autosaves every 60 s, on PREV/NEXT/ESC/PLAY, and on app quit (dirty-check via map hash).
• Duplicate boss types are allowed (e.g. two BOBs) and you can place more than 4 bosses per level.

Visual Assets

Boss-Man/Resources/red-stapler.png Title-screen hero stapler.

Boss-Man/Resources/shinyredstapler-emoji.png Level-6 traveler sprite.

PETE, the four bosses, and life-icon stand-ins are drawn procedurally by PixelPerson.swift — no sprite sheets, no boss PNGs. The app icon lives in Boss-Man/Resources/AppIcon.icon.

Made with Agent!

• This arcade-style video game concept was created using Agent
• An autonomous agentic AI, for macOS 26.4.1 — https://github.com/macos26/agent
• Fine tuning using Claude Code, and Agent! I use use the right tool for the job.
• Software is deployed using Agent! including release notes and DMGs.
• Music, Graphics, Art, Sound Effects and Game Design by Todd Bruss
• (c) Todd Bruss, InkPen.IO, All Rights Reserved.
• Binaries are property of Todd Bruss, Source code is MIT.