Previous games

Before developing Pizza Tower, McPig has worked on other games before. The genre, the gameplay, and even the style of sprites varies in each one of them.

Weenie Cop

Weenie Cop, also known as Weiners Don't Use Drugs and Hot Force, is an action-platformer game, starring Peter and Mac as main protagonists.

Visual art style

The visual art style doesn't look very different from Pizza Tower, besides it using colored outlines, not using a Game Boy Color Wario Land 2's color palette, animations being slower and sprites themselves being smaller, due the game being 4:3, instead of 16:9.

Gameplay

The gameplay was mostly inspired by Jazz Jackrabbit games. Pete and Mac's moveset are the same, with their differences only being aesthetic.

The moveset is mostly based on attacking, shooting and dashing. It's also possible to buy upgrades from the shopkeeper to upgrade the attack moves paying with toes and foot collectibles. The player can also collect hot peppers to charge the super move, depending on which attack the player will use, Peter or Mac will either shoot with a giant bullet that shatters into smaller ones or perform a big series of punches for a bit. It's also possible to perform wall jump by jumping into the wall then pressing the jump button again to jump away from it.

The enemies on first two levels are the variations of french fries, wearing black jackets and having different types of sauce as their hair. By modifying the game, it's also possible to see other type of enemies - burgers wearing black bandanas, like steriotypical burglars.

There are only two bosses - tutorial boss, which doesn't attack and can be defeated in one hit, and fryboys boss, being able to throw bombs and summon french fries enemies. The way to defeat him was to deflect the bomb with melee attacks, so it would go back at him, causing him to take damage. Also, he would be able to sometimes deflect the bomb back at the player. Though, the boss fight doesn't work as intended, as deflecting bombs back at the boss doesn't do anything, which makes the fight impossible.

Music

During development of the game, Weenie Cop did not have a original soundtrack. Instead, it used tracks, taken from various sources as just placeholders. Though, due to a few bugs, they don't play in the game itself.

List of tracks

• Character select theme
• Tutorial level theme
• Fryboys level theme

Download link

https://lmaololhahahfdufnny.itch.io/wiener-dont-use-drugs-weenie-cop-reshared

Early Tutorial video

https://youtu.be/VKpEHXOtOMU

Page on ArtStation

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/PwOaB

Trivia

• Several Assets and mechanics from this game later re-appeared again in Pizza Tower after Weenie Cop's cancellation, those being:
  • Breakable Block's sprite was completely reused but with most of the palette changed to fit the game.
  • Peter's design was reused for the Weenie.
  • Hair Fry's behavior was reused for the Spit Cheese.
  • Dash and pistol were reused as a main mechanic and a weapon, respectively.
  • The mechanic of purchasing upgrades for coins was reused for Pay Blocks.
  • Slopes' mechanic was reused for the Ladders.
  • Falling platform's mechanic was reused for the Cheese Block.
  • Spring's mechanic was reused for the Tomato Block.
  • Tip jar's mechanic was reused for the Pizza TV.
• Originally, Peter and Mac were supposed to have the super jump move, but due to a bug in the code for it, it's broken in-game.
  • It was seen in tutorial level with "DASH" and "UP" signs.
• Originally, Weenie Cop was not available for anyone to download, but some time later McPig decided to post the link to download the game in Pizza Tower Discord, and later on fully available to public via Itch.io.
• The development of the game was documented in McPig's Tumblr page .

Gallery

Peter's idle animation.

Mac's idle animation.

One of French fries enemies' walking animations.

One of Burger enemies' idle animations.

Shopkeeper's animation.

All sprites. (this gif might appear as an empty box)

Early unused tileset. Some of the blocks here do appear in game.

Some of the early concept art.

More Peter concept art.

Concepts of main mechanics of game.

The last bunch of concept art.

Promotional art for the game.

Pizza Massacre

Pizza Massacre is a 2D Resident Evil-like game, starring Peppino.

Visual art style

The visual style, unlike Pizza Tower, is more grim and scary, with Peppino being more realistic.

Gameplay

The gameplay was supposed to be side-scroller with need to find weapons to kill enemies. Only one video of gameplay exists , showcasing one of the weapons - buzz saw, so it's hard to tell how the game would actually play like.

Gallery

Some of Peppino's animations.

Collection of animations of Peppino. Some are unfinished

Former gif with animations finished

Another collection of animations

Another collection of animations

Sprite of Peppino breathing

Peppino looking back to check if nothing is following him.

Peppino walking in a sneaky fashion

Peppino running bouncily

Sprite of Peppino standing straight forward

Sprite of Peppino standing straight forward with his eyes closed

Peppino tiptoeing straight forward

Sprite of Peppino standing from behind

Peppino tiptoeing from behind

Peppino walking normally from behind

Unfinished animation of Peppino making large strides while looking scared

Unfinished sprite of Peppino running

Peppino pulling out a shotgun and shooting it

Peppino punching then looking shocked

Peppino hitting using his forearm

Peppino in a fight stance while shaking

Peppino smashing the floor with both fists

Peppino looking exhausted then sighing

Peppino being knocked backwards and faceplanting

Peppino being hurt

Peppino pulling out a gun and shooting it

Peppino kicking

Peppino attacking with the tip of his fingers

Peppino biting

Peppino pulling a glob of some pizza type substance out of his pocket then eating it

Peppino performing a sort of dance

Peppino in a fight stance while shaking with blood on his head

Peppino bleeding then faceplanting

Peppino shaking while covered in blood

Peppino's sprite with a chainsaw.

Peppino blinking

Peppino slashing in front of him with a pizzacutter

Peppino Walking

Peppino jumping

Peppino jumping with his cheeks puffed

Peppino falling down face first

Peppino jumping with one leg behind him

Peppino jumping, slashing the air in front of him with a pizzacutter, with one foot behind him.

Peppino ducking

White visual flair

Peppino screaming then dissolving

Peppino standing on his knees then faceplanting

Sprite of Peppino laying down on his back

Peppino running

Peppino superjumping using the buzzsaw

Peppino pulling out then shooting the shotgun

Sprite of Peppino laying on the floor with the shotgun

Peppino walking with the shotgun

Peppino running with the shotgun

Peppino jumping with the shotgun

Peppino jumping with the shotgun with one foot behind him

Peppino jumping and slashing the air in front of him with a pizzacutter.

Sprite of Peppino jumping while holding the shotgun over his head

Peppino falling with the shotgun

Peppino jumping with the buzzsaw with one foot behind him

Peppino jumping with the buzzsaw

Sprite of Peppino jumping while holding the buzzsaw over him

Peppino falling with the buzzsaw

Sprite of Peppino being hurt

Peppino charging with the buzzsaw

Peppino slashing the air upward with the buzzsaw

Peppino walking with the buzzsaw

White visual flair

Peppino raising a fist in the air with the shotgun

Peppino raising a fist in the air with the buzzsaw

Peppino raising a fist in the air

Peppino's idle animation with the buzzsaw

Smoother variety of the animation of Peppino walking with the buzzsaw

Varient of the animation of Peppino jumping with the buzzsaw

Peppino landing on the floor with the buzzsaw

Peppino sliding on the floor with the buzzsaw

Peppino holding a cannon.

First room in game.

Second room in game.

Concept of the map for the game.

Trivia

• The development of the game was cancelled due to time consuming of making big sprites and McPig liking only the buzz saw dash attack
  • Later, McPig decided to use the idea of the buzz saw dash attack to emulate Wario Land 4 engine and simplifying the sprites. Thus, the development of Pizza Tower started.
• Some of the sprites were posted by McPig on his Tumblr page and then later in Pizza Tower Discord.
• There's a video posted by McPig where it shows gameplay of Pizza Massacre.

Pizza Horror

Pizza Horror is a RPG-like game, made in RPG Maker and inspired by Earthbound.

Visual art style

The visual style here is pretty much the same as for Pizza Massacre.

Gameplay

The gameplay was supposed to be pretty similar to Earthbound, except with having more interactions in overworld map and having 2D sections, similar to LISA, in-between.

Gallery

Peppino's sprites

Peppino's idle sprite.

Peppino's weird face sprite.

Peppino's tired sprite.

Peppino's looking sprite.

Peppino's confused sprite.

Peppino's unamused sprite.

Peppino's walking sprite.

Peppino's holding pizza cutter sprite.

Peppino's shocked sprite looking from back.

Peppino's shocked sprite.

Peppino's ready for battle sprite.

Peppino's holding something sprite.

Peppino's being sad sprite. Possibly could be used in dialogue box.

Peppino's smiling sprite.

Peppino's animation in a manual of the game, which has the early name "Pizza Nightmare".

All the Peppino animations that were made.

Enemies' sprites

Sausageman's sprite.

Gazing Shroom's sprite.

Ceiling Weenie's sprite.

Sausage Master's sprite.

Cheesy's sprite.

Crust Golem's sprite.

Mushroomsack's sprite.

Pizzabro's sprite.

Pizzaguy's walking animation.

Unnamed ghost creature's sprite.

Ragingpepper's sprite.

Unnamed cheese creature's sprite.

Strip's sprite.

Doughdigger's sprite.

Pep's sprite.

Clownmato's sprite.

Chill Pineapple's sprite.

Unnamed oven sauce creature's sprite.

Raging Pepper's another sprite.

Clownmato's another sprite.

Dough Digger's another sprite.

Strip's another sprite.

Pep's another sprite.

Cheesy's another sprite.

Pizza Bandit's sprite.

Miscellaneous

Some of the props from the game.

Trivia

• The reason of cancellation of development of the game was due to RPG Maker's limitations in 2D sprites.
  • The idea of the 2D sections was later implemented in Pizza Massacre.
• The sprites were posted by McPig in Pizza Tower Discord.

Monkey game

Monkey game is an arcade-like game about monkeys stealing treasures and escaping from the four hunters.

Visual art style

The visual art style is heavily different from any other McPig's games, being more simplistic and inspired by old NES games.

Gameplay

Since not a single footage of the game was provided, the only way to find out about how the game was supposed to be played by McPig's description of it:

"it was an arcade like game where you play as a monkey stealing treasure and you have to avoid 4 hunters

brandon, rambo, the gun guy and the dog

and they would all have their own behavior"
— Pizza Tower Guy.

Gallery

Hunter's walking animation.

Ape on a turtle sprite.

Rambo's sprite.

Dog's sprite.

One of Monkey's sprites.

Monkey's scared sprite.

Monkey's animations.

Ape's defeated sprite.

Brandon's animations.

Ape on a lion sprite.

Clown game

Clown game is a RPG Maker game that was developped during the development of Pizza Tower. Not much known about it, since there's only one video of test build exists.

Visual art style

The visual art style is similar to Pizza Tower's art style.

Gameplay

As seen from the gameplay video, it possibly could be a puzzle involving changing characters, each having their different abilities, but that is not confirmed.

Trivia

1. It is unknown why the development of the game was unfinished. Possible reason to that either McPig being interested in making Pizza Tower more or just being an idea and it wasn't supposed to be proceeded anywhere else.

The music used in the gameplay video is "La donna è una cosa meravigliosa (M4)" (translated: "Woman Is a Wonderful Thing"), from a 1964 Italian comedy film of the same name.