Shrimp Thug

Shrimp Thug
First Appearance	The Pig City
First Demo Appearance	April 2021 Build

Shrimp Thug is an enemy in Pizza Tower.

Description

Shrimp Thug is a shrimp with scrawny looking arms, adorning which are a pair of white gloves. Its whiskers are shaped in a way that resemble a mustache, and it has large eyebrows. It is usually seen scowling at the player. Elite Shrimp Thugs resemble cooked shrimp, with a darker red color palette. They possess no other differences from normal Shrimp Thugs, appearance-wise.

Behavior

Upon spotting the player, Shrimp Thug will lunge towards them, attempting to punch them. This punch has a wide hitbox, and is capable of breaking breakable blocks. If the player is too far away, the Shrimp Thug will chase after the player, bouncing around on its tail until it either can no longer pursue or is within range of attacking.

Elite Shrimp Thugs throw knives instead of punching, but are still capable of pursuing the player.

Appears in

• The Pig City
• The Crumbling Tower of Pizza

Trivia

• Shrimp Thugs were first seen the unused level Kung Fu, where they were the most prominent enemy in that level.
• Shrimp Thug was inspired by classic beat 'em up games, mostly from Streets of Rage.
• Shrimp Thug used to have two unique variants:
  • Blue Shrimp Thugs, which would throw knives instead of punching. This behavior was eventually added back in, but the blue hue was not kept.
  • Green Shrimp Thugs, which would throw junk in a small arc. This behavior goes entirely unused in the final game, however, the animations for this action are still present in the files.
• The Green Shrimp Thug may be based on another enemy from one of PTG's earlier games, Weenie Cop. In it, there was a burger enemy that also threw junk in an arc.
• The palettes for the green and blue Shrimp Thugs were discovered in files of the April 2021 Build. This find confirmed that they were palette swaps and not different enemies.
• Shrimp Thug's Heat Meter attack was throwing a knife at the player. This behavior was reused for the Elite Shrimp Thug.
  • In the final release, The Elite variations of Shrimp Thug and Pizza Slug, as well as the Tribe Cheese, Bandito Chicken and U.F.Olive, remained the only enemies to retain their Heat Meter behavior.
  • The knife thrown by the Shrimp Thug is the same knife that was formerly used for the Peppibot's attack.

Gallery

Regular animations

Regular Shrimp Thug idle animation.

Shrimp Thug chasing after the player.

Shrimp Thug jumping.

Shrimp Thug punching.

Shrimp Thug lining up its throw, before throwing a knife.

Shrimp Thug's knife projectile.

Shrimp Thug's scared animation.

Shrimp Thug's stunned animation.

Shrimp Thug's defeat sprite.

Scrapped animations

Green Shrimp Thug throwing junk.

Miscellaneous

Dark Red Shrimp Thug, current palette for elite variants.

Blue Shrimp Thug palette, unused.

Green Shrimp Thug palette, unused.