Pizza Tower Wiki:Guidelines, Editing & Help/Pre-release build pages
Prerelease builds are builds that were released prior to the full game's release. These builds show the game in various different state, and there's no shortage of them. Prerelease build pages may contain information about a build's contents, differences, unused content within those builds, revisional changes between revisions and hotfixes and basic information, such as build dates and file sizes.
Naming Guidelines
Page and version names are presented by the build's name as displayed on the game's itch.io page or the .zip's filename. There are some other things to keep in mind.
- If a build uses a month for its name, call it by its month with a year added to the end in brackets.
- A year in brackets may also be added if a build name is too similar to that of another.
- If a build name is too generic, add "(Build)" to the end of its page title. Make sure the page is searchable through a disambiguation. This is not needed for infoboxes.
- If a build has the word "build" or "demo" in its title, add "build" or "demo" to the end of its name appropriately. If both of them are present, just use "build".
- If a build's official name is unknown, try to line it up with other existing build names from that time period.
- Steam prerelease builds don't have an official name. Instead, they're grouped together by months.
Unofficial community given names, most commonly Pre-Early Test Build and Pre-Jay Leno Build are not allowed.
- Examples:
- pizzatowerdemo_testerbuild1.zip - Tester Build
- PT_Rework_v1.1.zip - Rework
- PizzaTower_noisev21.zip - Noise (Build)
- PizzaTowerSAGE2019_v14.zip - SAGE 2019 Demo
- PTjanuarymonthlybuild1.zip - January Build (2019)
Infobox
Prerelease build pages make use of the {{Infobox build}} infobox, showcasing basic release information, build date(s), types, file sizes and build availability online with a download link if doable.
Usage:
{{Infobox build
|title =
|image =
|build date =
|release date =
|build type =
|file size =
|download =
|previous =
|next =
}}
The nine infobox functions are as follows:
- title - The build's name based on the naming guidelines. If no title is present, the text Title missing! will appear.
- image - A screenshot of the build's title screen, or a scenario in which a playable character present.
- build date - A date of compilation pulled from the game's data.win file. These dates must be in GMT+0 format. If a build page has several revisions, list all of them and note down the version number for each build.
- release date - The initial release date of this (series of) build(s).
- build type - Makes use of another template ({{buildtype|build}}) to describe whether the build was released to the public, exclusively to Patrons or a select few playtesters.
- file size - The build's compressed (.zip) file size in MB.
- download - Download link(s) to the builds, with an {{availability|state}} template added to the end showcasing if a build is available, repacked or unavailable.
- previous - A link to a previous released build. If this doesn't exist or isn't set, the text N/A will appear instead.
- next - A link to the next released build. If this doesn't exist or isn't set, the text N/A will appear instead.
Build title screens are taken from either one of these scenarios and must follow the screenshot guidelines:
- If the game boots up to a title screen (eg. a screen with the game's logo) with a menu of some kind.
- If the game doesn't have that and instead boots you right into the game, take a screenshot of the first moment that Peppino or The Noise appears on screen as a playable character.
The {{buildtype|build}} template makes use of a tooltip to display additional information about each category. One of either three options are available. If an invalid option is picked or a typo was made, the text will be replaced with "Improper template usage".
| Example | Result |
|---|---|
| {{buildtype|public}} | Public |
| {{buildtype|patreon}} | Patreon |
| {{buildtype|playtest}} | Playtest |
The {{availability|state}} template also makes use of a tooltip and is used to show if a build is available on either one of these public repositories, either in its original (.zip) or repackaged state. Much like the previous template, the text will be replaced with "Improper template usage" if the template is used improperly.
| Example | Result |
|---|---|
| {{availability|yes}} |  |
| {availability|repack}} |  |
| {{availability|no}} |  |
Example:
{{Infobox build
|title = Early Test Build
|image = Earlytestbuild.PNG
|build date = 14-7-2018 23:50:39 '''(v1)'''<br>
16-7-2018 05:47:57 '''(v2)'''<br>
16-7-2018 08:57:04 '''(v211)'''
|release date = July 15th, 2018
|build type = {{buildtype|public}}
|file size = 24,3MB '''(v1, v2, v211)'''<br>25,6MB '''(Peter Griffin)'''
|download = [https://archive.org/download/pizzatowerdemobuildspublic/Public/pizzatowerearlybuildtest.zip v1] {{availability|yes}}<br>[https://archive.org/download/pizzatowerdemobuildspublic/Public/pizzatowerearlybuildtest_v2.zip v2] {{availability|yes}}<br>
v21 {{availability|no}}<br>
[https://archive.org/download/pizzatowerdemobuildspublic/Public/pizzatowerearlybuildtest_v211.zip v211] {{availability|yes}}<br>
[https://archive.org/download/pizzatowerdemobuildspublic/Public/pizzatowerdemo.zip Peter Griffin] {{availability|yes}}
|previous = [[Pizza_Tower_test]]
|next = [[Tester Build]]
}}
