My first completed hack was Broadside, a naval redesign of Combat set during the War of 1812. Beyond just modifying sprites, this project allowed me to rethink a game conceptually and redesign it to have its own distinct feel from the original game.

My original concept for Broadside was that I wanted to bring Combat back into a colonial North American historical setting. As first conceived, the game had different land and sea variations, so I tried out a few different scenarios like field cannons firing on each other. I was never happy with the cannon fights, but the ship concept really worked well, so that’s what I stuck with for the entire game.

In 2017, I sold a very limited run of these on the Atariage forum, complete with text-label style cart and manual. Later,  Atariage’s custom packaging expert Marc Oberhäuser created a box for it that is still available at his Etsy store.