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Early Test Build is the first publicly released prerelease build of Pizza Tower and serves as a playtest demo for people to get a look and feel for the game. As the game hadn't found its identity yet, every aspect of this demo doesn't match up with the retail game or subsequent prerelease builds, as the game's only source of inspiration was from the Wario Land-series of games up to this point.
The Noise ready to press the button of destruction, activating Pizza Time.
From the moment the game starts up, the player is presented with a simple disclaimer screen, giving a brief overview and explaining the game's controls. Pressing or Enter brings the player to a tutorial, allowing to take control of Peppino, learn a handful of important abilities and superjump to the beginning of the level. Five Toppins and two secrets are found across the level, with the player running into Cheeseslimes, Weenies and Pizza Box Goblins along the way. Once the player has reached the end of the level, a jar of peanut butter is waiting at the end, which causes The Noise to walk in and activate Pizza Time. Once the level is beaten, the game ranks the player based on how many Toppins were collected, combined with your score - which can be a maximum of 3000 points. The game ends after a rank is shown.
Peppino controls radically different compared to any subsequent prerelease builds. Peppino's overall moveset is clunkier, with mach 3 taking longer to build up, jumps being not as high and lacking the ability to run at mach 4 or even run up walls. Building up mach speed is mapped to the key instead of and the player has the ability to perform a high jump by holding and pressing . Superjumping happens instantaneously after building up to mach 3 and pressing and cancelling out of it mid-air causes Peppino to roll up in a ball and launch in the direction he was running. Enemies are impossible to kill - with an exception for the Cheeseslime enemies - and are grabbed automatically upon stunning them.
Certain animations are different too, with Peppino lacking his heavy-breathed bobbing idle animation in favor of standing in place while looking around. The superjump only uses one frame, lacking a spinning motion that was added later.
Audio placeholders can be heard across the entire demo.
Tons of sound effects have been borrowed from Wario Land II. Sound effects that aren't from that game are all stock sound effects.
Obtaining the Knight transformation plays Frog's Theme from Chrono Trigger.
Obtaining the Bomb transformation plays Hot Wario's transformation theme from Wario Land II.
After completing the level, the rank screen plays Stage Clear from Wario World
The game's unused demo start screen plays the Minigame Shop from Wario Land 4.
Revisional Changes
A total of five builds were released to the public, compiled between July 14th and July 21st, 2018.
This is the first publically available build, released on July 15th, 2018.
It is only in this build where the player has the ability to run by pressing . While running, Peppino's speed locks at Mach 2.
It is also the only build where enemies have the ability to jump off ledges.
Also only here, The Weenie and the Smoked Weenie have the same color (that being red). The only difference between them is that one of them has a lit cigar.
This build features a number of bugs:
In the tunnel between the tutorial and main level, cancelling out of the Super Jump right before exiting the tunnel, Peppino will clip out of bounds underneath the level and continue running indefinitely, softlocking the game. This was rectified in version 2.
It is easy to softlock the game using the knight transformation: in the room where the transformation is introduced, simply walk off the pedestal to the left, towards the ladder. From there, it is impossible to bypass the pedestal or jump back up on it. This was also rectified in version 2.
When picking up a bomb, running between rooms temporarily pauses the bomb timer, allowing the player to carry it for twice as long.
While Lap 2 is present, the player has to precisely jump over the gate to access it, or else the level automatically finishes.
Released on July 16th, 2018, this build is a revision to version 1. Here, Peppino's ability to run was removed, leaving him only able to dash. As well as that, enemies can no longer jump off ledges.
This version corrects colors for the Weenie and the Smoked Weenie. Unlike in the finished game, however, the Smoked Weenie is the one who can hurt the player.
Version 2 adds a couple of small changes to room layouts, the most major of which is the level where Pizza Box Goblins are introduced. In this version, the first section of the room has been modified to, when picking up a bomb, guide Peppino towards metal blocks more easily.
List of minor changes:
A graphic has been added to the tutorial section of the level that teaches the player how to do a High Jump.
Collision has been removed from the Knight transformation pedestal for easier navigation and to avoid softlocking.
In the room with the Cheese toppin, a narrow path of breakable blocks was added underneath the steps to the toppin for easier navigation. It is indicated by one breakable block on each side and can only be entered while rolling.
In the room where Pizza Box Goblins are introduced, a graphic of the "Tower map" has been added, showing the player where they currently are in the tower.
The automatic trigger has been removed from the exit gate, allowing the player to do Lap 2 much easier.
Version 21 isn't publically available as of writing. This takes notes from Pizza Tower Discord's chatlog.
A bug is present where the player could repeatedly build up speed by turning around. This was rectified in version 211.
Released on the same day as version 2 and version 21, this build is a cleanup of previous builds. No significant changes were found, except that the speed with which Peppino rides the skateboard now depends on the speed he was running at right before stepping on it. The skateboard, however, always has a higher speed than Peppino, which results in it leaving without Peppino shortly after acquiring it. This was changed in the Peter Griffin Experience build.
Peter Griffin, edited as Peppino.
On July 21st, a joke build was released in Pizza Tower Discord's #speedrunning channel, where Peppino was replaced with a static downscaled image of Peter Griffin from Family Guy dressed up as Peppino himself. The title of this joke build is The Peter Griffin Experience. The track Theatrical Shenanigans was also replaced with a Cool Whip Trap Remix. Underneath the memes is the latest known version of Early Test Build.
List of changes:
All rooms were given additional props and tiles.
Peppino now has the ability to recover from a high fall. If the player presses right before hitting the ground, Peppino will perform a handstand and get back up.
The bug where the skateboard had a higher speed than Peppino was fixed, thus it doesn't leave without him anymore.
The layout of the room where Pizza Box Goblins are introduced has been changed: the breakable blocks in the middle have been set in a grid pattern to avoid softlocking. Prior to that, it was possible to get stuck by breaking the blocks from the top down, creating a narrow hole too high for Peppino to jump out of.
A graphic has been added to the last room before the treasure room, showing the player where to get the key to open the door.
The Lap 2 points were added to outside the treasure room.
The Lap 2 points from inside the treasure room still exists, allowing the player to collect 200 more points than intended, although the one inside the treasure room needs to be collected first or it will despawn[1].
A frame of Peppino's scrapped mach 3 animation can occasionally be seen in Peppino's particles when switching from mach 2 to mach 3.
This build has two secret rooms, both of which feature a photo of a real-life pizza with a wavy shader laid on top of it as the background.
In Peppino's Knight Transformation, Frog's Theme from Chrono Trigger was used. The victory screen music uses the level clear jingle from Wario World, and when picking up a bomb, the Flaming Wario theme from Wario Land 2 is played.
This was part of a scrapped concept where each of Peppino's Transformations would have its own theme.
Most enemies in this demo are unable to be defeated, instead being constantly stunned and thrown around.
Peppino's mach run trail effect, which flashes between red and green, can also be purple. This was already changed in the first Tester Build of Demo 1.
Levels from earlier in the game's development are in the files of this demo.
Peppino has a voice in this demo, which plays whenever you get hit, collect a complete pizza, unlock a door, collect the secret treasure, and when Pizza Time starts. All but the last one have different voices, and one is chosen to be played.
These voice-lines were sourced from stock Warner Bros. sounds used during the development of Super Mario 64, as told by metadata attached to the included audio files.
These voice actor for these lines was famous actor Mel Blanc.
There are 5 unused results texts left over in this build which may have been intended for a scrapped results screen.
In the disclaimer room, the game checks if the player's platform supports shaders, if it doesn't it then checks if shdr_wind and shd_hit are compiled, and if they are, the game shows the message: "ur graphic card is shit" and closes itself.
. While running, Peppino's speed locks at Mach 2.
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