Development History

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March 6th to March 14th, 2018#

In a Tumblr blog post, Pizza Tower Guy (known as McPig) showed off concept art for a new game idea. As he described it, the game was going to be a Wario Land 2 / 4 wannabe, featuring mechanics and the puzzle-like gameplay from both games. The title for the game was "The Leaning Tower of Pizza", and he pushed back the idea of his previous game, "Weiners Don't Use Drugs", as he was feeling like the game mechanics didn't mesh well together. This concept art features some scrapped and slightly altered mechanics and enemies.

Early Cheeseslime with eyebrows and a scrapped hot pepper enemy.

Scrapped tomato enemy that would explode when you ran into it. Its design was later reused in the final for the Clownmato enemy.

Peppino on a pogo stick, which was later reused by the Noise.

Scrapped concept art of what looks like a tomato enemy, probably intended for a boss battle. The pogo stick was going to play a major role here.

Concept art of Pizzamancer, a character which was never implemented into the game but mentioned by Pizza Tower Guy as part of the lore.

Posted on March 26th in this blog post. Shows a mix of the scrapped tomato enemy and scrapped boss enemy.

(Source: Tumblr)

On that same day, Pizza Tower Guy released a short clip of the first level. Basic mechanics, like jumping, crawling and running were implemented. The game is also running in a smaller resolution, at 500x375 to be exact. The final game runs at 960x540. Also, tiles that are 32x32 show up as 48x48. As for Peppino, he has no shadows and his skin color is different. So are the small bricks, which were just a solid color.

Prototype	Final

The description shows moves for Peppino from an RPG Pizza Tower Guy never made. Peppino even has brown shoes, so this definitely wasn't the first time Peppino would be (re)used. His name wasn't even decided yet, as Pizza Tower Guy referred to him as "the same character".

(Source: Tumblr)

March 16th, 2018#

Pizza Tower Guy would then continue to post progress on the game, sometimes daily. A new video was posted showing that certain tiles from Weiners Don't Use Drugs were brought over. These tiles would end up in the final game in one way or another.

Weiners Don't Use Drugs	Pizza Tower (Prototype)	Pizza Tower (Final)


Doesn't exist.

Furthermore, picking up a key would play the toppings collected sound, which was a placeholder sound from Wario Land II, and near the beginning of this footage is the unused spr_player_turning sprite, which was removed from later demos.

(Source: Tumblr (WDUD Brick Tile), Tumblr (WDUD Ground Tile) & Tumblr (Pizza Tower))

March 18th, 2018#

A video of the same room was posted, this time with different placeholder music. We're also shown that walking through doors displays a different effect, similar to the keyhole in Super Mario World.

Prototype	Final

(Source: Tumblr)

March 20th, 2018#

We're finally seeing a level that was left unused in a publicly released build. It was supposed to be the first level, and is present in the files of the Early Test Build. It contains some new mechanics like bananas and barrels. The game is now presented in 16:9 widescreen instead of 4:3 fullscreen.

The game is also now being called Pizza Tower instead of The Leaning Tower of Pizza.

(Source: Tumblr)

March 22nd, 2018#

Toppins were added. Originally, you would lose them if you get hurt, and they would run around until you get them back. Also, hooks.

March 26th, 2018#

A new test for a second level was created, and PTG uses a barrel in it along with avoiding Piraneapples and going underwater. You may notice that the Toppins originally had scuba masks when underwater.

March 28th, 2018#

A walkthrough of an updated first level is seen, with enemies added in and a version of Funiculi Funicula commissioned by Dim Widdy as its theme.

(Source: Tumblr)

April 4th, 2018#

The underwater level is now mostly done, and a proper HUD was added showing Peppino's face, the inventory slot and the score.

April 10th, 2018#

Level 3 is being worked on with blocks to push.

April 14th, 2018#

Level 4 is being worked on with monsters to hide from, and Pillar John was added. Peppino now has a super jump.

April 24th, 2018#

Peppino has gotten mach 3 which is required for the super jump. There are now several new enemies and a boss named Pepperman, and slopes have finally been added.

April 27th, 2018#

Peppino defeats a Forknight in style.

April 30th, 2018#

Peppino now has a skateboard and uses it to kill several enemies.

May 31st, 2018#

Peppino has been given two weapons, a shotgun and a chainsaw.

June 2nd, 2018#

Mr. Sauceman first gets in contact with PTG, sending him a demo track of what would soon be It's Pizza Time!.

June 17th, 2018#

PTG opens the official Pizza Tower Discord.

(Source: Tumblr)

June 21st, 2018#

PTG starts spriting the Weenie enemy.

(Source: List of Twitch streams)

June 26th, 2018#

Peppino kills the Weenie enemy in several rooms. He also gets a revolver and opens a pizza box.

June 27th, 2018#

Several sprites are drawn, unknown as of which.

(Source: List of Twitch streams)

July 2nd, 2018#

PTG starts spriting the Pizza Box Goblin and Peppino's knight transformation.

July 12th, 2018#

PTG sprites idle animations for Peppino and the new character, The Noise.

July 16th, 2018#

The first ever public release build of the game is released, the Early Test Build. Secret treasures, the bomb transformation, metal blocks and The Noise are now in the game.

Watch on YouTubeOn the same day, PTG tries to speedrun that same build, and accidentally gets a world record.