Welcome to Pizza Tower Facts, the go-to stop for Pizza Tower Facts and Trivia!
I got lots of knowledge, from the tiniest quirks to things during development!
But that's not all! If YOU have a fact that YOU want to see posted, DMs will be open, just back your fact with a source!
For the SAGE 2019 Demo, McPig held a Scream Contest, where people of the PTD could submit their screams and 1 of 10 would be selected to play rarely when defeating an enemy.
Here are the placements, winners and reasons why these 10 screams were chosen.
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On the Splatoon Inkipedia Page for Um'ami Ruins, an image that shows off the engraved effect for users submitted drawings on the stage has a drawing of The Noise on it.
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Pesto Anchovi is a scrapped song that would've played during Pizza Time as The Noise.
Remix of Beethoven's Sonata No. 14 - 3rd Movement, made by ClascyJitto. Scrapped due to Jitto hating it, being their most popular track at the time, and it wasn't an original track.
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The Pizza Tower Discord is now finished.
Shut down due to the increase of people post-launch, and moderation not being able to keep up, so it was decided to shut it all down. All that's left are a few channels on read.
Legacy members got together and made the image below.
Meatphobia is actually only two Orchestral Hits from the game Jet Set Radio when you successfully tag your Graffiti for points. When sped up by 1000%, you can hear it.
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Image drawn for when the Sage 2019 website servers took a big hit for when a ton of people tried downloading the SAGE 2019 Pizza Tower Demo.
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The Noise does not like Pizza! Not. One. Bit.
He would rather eat sweets! Which is what the collectables turn into when playing as The Noise in older builds.
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One of the ideas during Pizza Tower's development involved actually delivering pizzas during levels.
Here's an old clip of Peppino delivering to an Alien, which would've been in Oregano Desert on the UFO.
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One of the oldest ideas involving Pillar John, before he got the name, was some levels would slowly lean to the side which would cause the level timer to drop down to zero.
You would feed John collectibles to stabilize the stage temporarily, to stop it from collapse.
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Materia Collective will be handling the Pizza Tower OST sometime in the near future. They license and publish music.
That's not a good thing though. These are the same people who Copyright Claim Toby Fox UT/DR songs on YT, demonetizing them.
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The Heat Meter is a scrapped mechanic, an idea taken from God Hand where enemies would become stronger the better you do in a level.
At the highest level of Heat, enemies would acquire new attacks. However the idea was met with mixed reception, and was removed.
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Peppino's Super Jump Technique was changed a lot during development.
One of the strangest cases was when the height of the Super Jump was limited a Lot, however the jump could be charged from a standstill.
No one liked this.
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The Ghost King that follows you around in Pizzascare can be found on an assortment of banners throughout Pizzascape.
However there's no robe or round parts on the crown, which could also imply these are two different kings, yet lip, 'stache and eyes say otherwise.
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The U.F.Olive enemy from the Spaceship Interior on Oregano Desert and Deep-Dish 9 went under a handful of redesigned before settling on the final one featured above.
Below are the scrapped designs.
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P Rank is when you run through a stage Perfectly. This includes:
-All Secrets
-The Secret Treasure
-Lap 2
-Keeping a Combo the entire time
-High Score
However, you must also kill an enemy in the Very First Room in a stage, failing to do so makes you also lose P rank.
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When The Noise was first being developed to be playable, one of the earliest ideas to make him unique to Peppino was give him a Grappling Hook.
The hook was then made into a Washing Machine, that also doubled as his grab.
Both functions and ideas were scrapped.
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(Jumpscare)
In Don't Make a Sound, there is a 1/10 chance that when being Jumpscared, the scare will be replaced by an Oktoberfest celebration, complete with a soothing green background, and a yodel.
However you still get punished the same way as a normal scare.
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Unused Pineapple Monster Jumpscare from Don't Make a Sound.
This would trigger during the escape sequence when jumped by a Toppin Monster awoken by the Pineapple Monster. (Eggplant Build)
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One of the oldest scrapped songs is known as The Phantom Tower by Mr. Sauceman.
Posted as early as July 2018, this song was scrapped for a few reasons, such as Mr. Sauceman not liking it for feeling "too loud" and for there being no proper place to put it anymore.
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Peddito & The Doise are character recolors of Peppino & The Noise, created by Robby1scool for this video:
These two became a meme amongst fans to the point where Peddito & The Doise decor can be seen in Pizzascare.
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In the SAGE 2019 Build, there is a handful of Cowboy Tasks that one can complete, from getting all S Ranks to clearing stages under certain conditions.
Completing all the Cowboy Tasks gives Peppino (and Snick) a Cowboy Hat to wear around.
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Concept Art of the scrapped Mansion level, where the Farmer enemies found in Fun Farm were meant to be allies instead, raiding the Mansion to burn it down.
Lacking in enemies, Fake Peppino would lurk from the shadows and impede you instead.
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Concept Art of early ideas for Achievements, as well as the scrapped reward of Hats to give Peppino, including which one you'd unlock on each floor.
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During the Escape Sequence, when Mr. Stick and Gustavo jump in and tell you where to go, they can actually kill enemies if they land on them.
It even extends the current combo too!
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In the level Oh Shit!, Anton from hit games AntonBall Deluxe and eventually to be AntonBlast from
@Summitsphere
can be seen in the background in a Peppino outfit, while holding a Greaseball.
This is also a reference to AntonBall, in which Anton is really good at handling balls.
Pizza Massacre was a concept for a game before the idea for Pizza Tower came along. It was going to be a Horror-Themed Resident Evil styled RPG with 2D sections like LISA, inspired by Evil Dead where Peppino would fight pizza monsters.
Here's some sprites from it.
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Break Dancing was once more than just something silly you could do by holding down Taunt. It used to be an attack!
It was bound to its own button, so you could still grab, taunt and parry enemies too.
The move was eventually removed. Here's some footage of it.
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In the 2018 Halloween Build, Pepperman's health was determined by what colour of Pepper he was.
Red - Full
Orange - Weakened
Yellow - Low
Since then, Pepperman lost his ability to change colour and is now just a Red Pepper in the final game.
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Oh? What's that I see?
Yes! Yes it is! 10k followers!
I made this account on a whim one day because I felt like posting Cool Pizza Tower Facts! So thanks for the support!
I know I haven't been the most 101% Perfect, but I'll do what I can to make mama proud, here on out!
In earlier builds, instead of Gustavo using a Spin attack, Gustavo would have Brick eat and spit out enemies, similar to Yoshi in Super Mario World. This was cut from the final game.
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In earlier Demos, Pepperman used to be much bigger. He was then later shrunk when he was planned to be playable for just the Freezer.
The idea for Playable Pepperman was very short lived, and while Pepperman was never in any demos, he still remains in broken code.
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Some people were asking which Pizzasona actually belonged to me, so here's mine!
Dr. Eam is their name, and images are in this order:
-Pizzasona in final game
-Mock up of Pizzasona I put together for McPig
-Original Design
-Dr. Eam in the Halloween 2018 Demo Party
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Pizza Crawler was a once planned, short-lived side-game for Pizza Tower.
Gustavo would play the role of main character and gameplay was akin to Pokemon Mystery Dungeon.
The idea was that people in the Pizza Tower Discord could submit concepts, sprites and music too.
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There are a total of 3 scrapped Taunts for Peppino.
-Promotion!
A reference to AoStH's Robotnik, where he gives himself a Promotion!
-Adventure Pose
The pose Sonic does for Sonic Adventure
-Peter Stance
The standard pose of Peter Griffin.
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If you supported Pizza Tower in the Chivalrous Customer tier from Dec 2018-April 2019, you would have your character "Pizzafied" and have them show up in-game as a Pizzasona!
There's currently 54 different designs that show up in secrets, which one is YOUR favourite?
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When Pizzasonas were no longer something people could get, an idea that was thrown around to be a new tier reward was Pets.
You could get your OC in the game that followed you around in some shoes, However this is all that became of it, and it was never implemented.
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Oh. Right. Likes are hidden now.
The joke where the only tweets I had liked are when the AntonBlast Twitter account posted the Anton X Peppino Smooching Art, is now lost to time. So sad.
Figured I'd share.
During development, Playable Noise was given an Analog Dab, unique to him. This was done with the LT of a Gamepad.
In later builds, this function was removed and it is currently unknown if it will make it to the final game.
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These screams remained in various Patreon Demos until they were removed before the final game.
And of course, in classic McPig fashion, these screams were only ever properly credited in the now dead Discord, so thank these people for screaming their lungs out for us!
Snotty is a green Cheeseslime that takes residence on the fourth floor of the Tower.
If the player kills Snotty, a Snotty tombstone will be planted there.
If kept alive, Snotty will follow the player out of the Tower at the end and the file becomes Snotty Approved!
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Snick The Porcupine is a character that stars in the SAGE 2019 Demo where he hosts the Snick Amateur Games Expo.
After clearing all 3 stages, he challenges you to go through all 3 stages in 10 minutes while *he* chases you.
Completing this lets you play as Snick!
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As you may or may not know, Playable Noise is planned to be in a future Pizza Tower update.
HOWEVER, right now Sertif is still fixing various bugs, and McPig is taking a break.
It's unknown when he will be finished and added, just expect him in the upcoming months.
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Ever attempt a run on Fun Farm or something, it's going Perfectly, you Lap 2 and it gives you an S rank? You missed the Cheeseslime in the very beginning, friend.
And no, Toppins are not required, but they do provide a good score boost.
This song would have most likely been used for the then scrapped Horror stage, that had chase mechanics as early as April 2018.
Speaking of which here's early footage of said scrapped Horror stage.
Of course there's the obvious "modders will put him" in which is why I said officially.
But modders, PLEASE remember Snick is a cute mascot type of a lil guy with beady eyes, don't make every other face he makes a Wojak. Use Gustavo as a reference for lil guys with beady eyes.
The art of Pizza Tower was all drawn and animated in Aseprite, Animated Sprite Editor & Pixel Art Tool, with the Pixel-perfect option selected for smoother pixels.
It is not MSPaint.
Learn more about Aseprite here:
Mort The Chicken isn't the Only Guest starring character in Pizza Tower.
The Pickle enemy is actually based on the Roper enemy found in Memoirs of Magic.
McPig also reached out to the creators for the design.
Go check out Memoirs of Magic:
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The Heat Meter is however available to check out in the April 2021 Patreon Build, where it's enabled. If you can find a build of it, have at it.
And here's a video from McPig, first pitching the idea, along some scrapped combat maneuvers.
In the early versions of Crust Cove (Pineapple Beach at the time) Peppino would start the level in a ship, where he would then have to find a key to get out.
In the final release, the ship was moved to the middle of the level and was given different graphics.
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Peppino doesn't wear an apron of any kind.
He actually wears a white tank top on-top of a black t-shirt, because he cannot afford a proper apron.
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Peppino and Gustavo's sprites have them wear Yellow clothes.
This is done so that the outfit function changes Only the clothes like a chroma key. If white, Peppino's teeth and eyes would be affected.
Despite being yellow, there is no yellow clothes as an unlockable.
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The said programmer was one Sertif, which went on to help code for the actual Pizza Tower instead! Every cloud has a silver lining!
A reference to Pizza Crawler can be found in Don't Make a Sound as an arcade machine.
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More than possible for the candy collectibles on the upper half to be properly added to the final game when Playable Noise is finished, they just need the reanimated treatment the usual collectables got in the final game.
Toppins once went by the name Pizzakin at one point during development. In earlier builds, all Toppins are associated with the Pizzakin title internally.
In the final build they are referred to as Toppins internally instead.
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Mort The Chicken from the PS1 game, Mort The Chicken is a Guest Character in Pizza Tower that shows up in the stage Fun Farm.
McPig simply asked the creator
@edannunziata
if Mort could be in Pizza Tower and he said sure, no strings attached.
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Tucked away in The Pig City is the Bacon Room with Bacon collectables. In the room's background is what's been dubbed by some as the Bacon God, that slowly gets closer...
Waiting long enough causes the Bacon God to... act.
(also listen to meatphobia at x10 speed)
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The "Official Pizza Tower Lore" Doc is a super early draft of lore and ideas for the Pizza Tower world.
It is VERY outdated so don't take Anything in here as fact.
Here are some excerpts from it.
Here's the link (SWITCH IT TO VIEWING MODE):
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To drive the point home on how no one liked this change, the footage is from the westernbuildv1 (April 25th, 2020).
This change was reverted and undone in the westernbuildv2 (April 27th, 2020) just two days later.
Materia Collective will be handling the Pizza Tower OST sometime in the near future. They license and publish music.
That's not a good thing though. These are the same people who Copyright Claim Toby Fox UT/DR songs on YT, demonetizing them.
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Curious about Pizza Crawler...? Well I suppose I can throw you a bone.
A lot of Pizza Crawler stuff from back then was taken down by McPig.
But that doesn't mean there aren't.. BACK UPS!
Pizza Crawler Drive:
Pizza Crawler Bible:
One of the Pizzasonas within Secret Stages is actually Teimo from My Summer Car.
The person who got Teimo into Pizza Tower as a Pizzasona is one Simo "Kaappis" Kauppinen who voiced the character and claimed the devs gave him permission to use Teimo however he wants.
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Addendum:
The names of the owners for each Pizzasona have been tracked down.
There's no credits for them in the final game, so if you were curious who was responsible for which design, now you know!
You might even recognize a name on here!
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If you supported Pizza Tower in the Chivalrous Customer tier from Dec 2018-April 2019, you would have your character "Pizzafied" and have them show up in-game as a Pizzasona!
There's currently 54 different designs that show up in secrets, which one is YOUR favourite?
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As was pointed out by
@emihead
these sound effects were also taken from Norman Cook – Skip To My Loops under Track 42 (Stabs)
Other sounds from Skip To My Loops were also used in Pizza Tower such as the Golf Score SFX (may be future facts from this)
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sorry to be that guy but that hit is actually pulled from track 42 of Norman Cook - Skip To My Loops (which is also where the golf score sounds are sampled from
Speaking as me for a moment, it truly does suck that there's only 3 main channels to look back at read on.
Full disclosure, I was a Patreon, and someone with a Pizzasona in-game. I had access to the Pizzasona channel, it's the ONLY reason why I could credit the people who- (1/3)
The Pizza Tower Discord is now finished.
Shut down due to the increase of people post-launch, and moderation not being able to keep up, so it was decided to shut it all down. All that's left are a few channels on read.
Legacy members got together and made the image below.
The Pizza Tower Halloween 2018 Demo had a Dance Party, where people in the Discord could submit a character of theirs to be put in the party.
You needed and A or S Rank to gain entry. There was also a jukebox to play songs, some of which are not in the final game.
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Also these sprites (and the not-shown candy blocks) were originally made by Tocinin, Fallatious and BonnieMuffins for the Hardoween Demo, where people from the Discord could submit sprites as decor.
So McPig did not make these sprites to begin with.
An idea for a level that was conceived was a level known as Canadian Winter.
There's no build of it, and in the image below from the Game Design Document is the only known idea on what it would be like.
Some ideas like Sticky Floors would be reused however.
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The "Official Pizza Tower Lore" Doc is a super early draft of lore and ideas for the Pizza Tower world.
It is VERY outdated so don't take Anything in here as fact.
Here are some excerpts from it.
Here's the link (SWITCH IT TO VIEWING MODE):
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Brick's party horn in Gnome Forest is actually transparent. It's two kinds of green because of the tree and empty space behind the foreground.
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Any channel to possibly answer them all is gone, but McPig did once post 42 of the 67 submissions in the Thing of the Week in the Discord, 4 days before the Halloween 2018 Demo.
And no, in the files of the Halloween 2018 Demo, the sprites aren't even properly named.
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Quick question: I know you were able to get credits for all the pizzasona in the modern game. But is it possible to track down the credits of the pizzasona creators of the old pre patreon 2018 pizzasonas? (Talking about these guys btw )