Battleground Zero / 戦場ゼロ

Note: These are my three oldest games from 2004-2005. You may need to run them in Windows XP compatibility mode.

Battleground Zero is a 2d platformer with destructible terrain. You play as a tank, and blast your way through 50 levels with 10 unique bosses. This was the very first game I released, on January 19, 2005.

Soldier is a 2d top-down game where you try to capture the enemy's flag without getting shot down. This was an earlier game from 2004, which I released in March 2005.

Alteration is a "Jumper clone" with an elemental component. This demo is from March 2005 and only contains the tutorial level and first area. I lost the source codes to all these games after a thunderstorm that March. I recovered the .exe files over a decade later on https://host-a.net/.

Alteration is by far the hardest of the three games. Soldier is probably the easiest. Amusingly, Soldier uses the same music as Battleground Zero. BGZ is the largest, and also has the most secrets - if you find all five hidden levels you can access a secret boss.

While I worked on several other projects in the 2000s (mainly point-and-click adventure games), I didn't release another game until A Starspangled Zephyr five years later, on April 5, 2010.