Pizza Tower/Unused Sprites

This is a sub-page of Pizza Tower.

1 Sub-Pages
2 ~~Blue~~ Purple Block Land Build Leftovers
3 Captain Bomb
4 Credits Transformations
5 Halloween Update
6 Old Pillar John Animations
7 Old Pause Screen
8 Old Player HUD
9 Pizza Time HUD Element
10 Old Exit Gates
11 Old Doors
12 Old Character Cube
13 Pizzahead Boss Fight Sketches
14 Placeholder Flush Cards
15 Noise's Boss Fight Sprites
16 Miscellaneous Placeholder Graphics
17 Unused Enemy Animations
18 Unused Toppins Animations
19 Loose Sprites

Sub-Pages

Unused Peppino Animations
Oh boy, there's a lot. And we mean a lot.

Unused Noise Animations
That pesky gremlin again.

Unused Gustavo & Brick Animations
Plenty of old animations, dating all the way back to Gustavo's debut as an NPC.

Unused Pepperman Animations
A perfect pepper never falters!

Blue Purple Block Land Build Leftovers

One of the Patreon builds titled Blue Block Land had sprites created for a placeholder hub room in a time when gates did not display level names and also had a simple gate for all levels you could play in. These served as a temporary replacement until that was implemented. There's also sprites for ranks and a "cover" for the build of sorts.

The mixup of the "Blue Block Land" and "Purple Block Land" names is the result of the solid objects being changed from blue to purple in one of the builds. These solids were, ironically, changed again for the final game to be a pink transparent square.

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The build's cover image for build v4, which presents the addition of wall climbing and the fireass transformation.
(Text: Purple Land Week 3 (+1) Butt & Wallclimbing)
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A window that would've appeared in front of a gate to indicate the level wasn't cleared yet.
(Text: No Rankings Yet)
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Cover for the tutorial, which was John Gutter in this case.
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Cover for Pizzascape.
(Text: Fun fact: Knight took shit in their armors)
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Cover for The Ancient Cheese.
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Cover for Bloodsauce Dungeon. By then, the game adapted purple solids.
spr_entrancegate
The gate used for entering levels.

Captain Bomb

Captain Goblin was originally called Captain Bomb and had a more humanoid design. The only sprites created for him consist of the same idle animation badly rotated and edited. He was probably replaced as his sprites would've obstructed the player's view too greatly.

spr_captainbomb
Captain Bomb ready to fire. Although it doesn't animate, it has 16 frames.
spr_captainbombshoot
Captain Bomb shouting "FIRE!" while shooting his cannon.
spr_captainbombdead
Captain Bomb's cannon exploding on him after the player enters a room that Bomb isn't used in.

Credits Transformations

One sprite simply titled spr_credittransformation was used for the credits in the Halloween demo from 2018 to tease players for upcoming transformations. They're single frames, and the majority of these transformations were either changed visually or scrapped.

Early version of the Barrel transformation, with a more shaded barrel.
Sticky Cheese transformation.
Scrapped Meteor transformation, which has finished animations in the game's files.
Scrapped Spinny transformation. According to McPig, the transformation would have "[made] you spin, go real high then float back down spinning" and "Stun you for a second when landing." Notably, the final version of the Firemouth transformation depicts Peppino spinning as he jumps, but this has a minimal effect on the jump itself.
Scrapped Shy transformation. "Makes you unable to charge, slow. Spikes."
Scrapped Caffeinated transformation. "Makes you go really fast without being able to charge until you are hit and drop your coffee. Used to get through falling platforms that requires high speed instantly." Likely made obsolete by Dash Pads.
Scrapped Drunk transformation. No info was given for this, which suggests it was scrapped pretty early on. It would have most likely acted a lot like Drunk Wario from Wario Land II and 3.
Scrapped Muscle transformation. "Makes you able to destroy everything."
Cheeseball transformation.
Early Pizza Box transformation. Has visible legs and a logo on the top.
Scrapped Swiss transformation. No info was given for this either, but it was most likely an early version of the Ghost transformation, which would have been given to you by a... "fat guy that farts eating pizza". Notably, around the Western Builds, the ghost transformation was given via Ranch Shooters' bullets.
Scrapped Superhero transformation. Has an uncanny similarity to The Noise's old design. "Makes you fly anywhere and destroy metal blocks when running into them at high speed. Spikes."
Early Peshino/Animatronic transformation.
Early Fireass transformation.
Scrapped Sick transformation. No info was given for this one.
Unseen Hungry Peppino transformation that would allow him to eat things. It may be a nod to Pac-Man.
An unseen transformation that wasn’t with the others, but rather found in the announcements channel of the old Pizza Tower Discord.

Halloween Update

The 2023 Halloween Update added a whole bunch of sprites related to Mr Stick and possibly to the scrapped level "Stickland", alongside sprites for another goblin variant.

Coins & Cash

spr_stickcollect_largecoin
spr_stickcollect_coin
spr_stickcollect_billstack
spr_stickcollect_bill
spr_stickcollect_bennies
spr_stickcollect_billlargestack
spr_stickcollect_smallcoinbag
spr_stickcollect_largecoinbag

There's also animations for opening and finishing to collect bags and the suitcase.

spr_stickcollect_smallcoinbag_open
spr_stickcollect_largecoinbag_open
spr_stickcollect_billlargestack_open
spr_stickcollect_smallcoinbag_end
spr_stickcollect_largecoinbag_end
spr_stickcollect_billlargestack_end

Mr Stick's Chest

Very much placeholder sprite for a Mr Stick chest.

Stick Switch

Placeholder sprites for a switch also for Stick.

Goblin

The goblin resting
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Goblin performing an intro, probably after being freed from its cage
Idle animation
Running animation
The goblin riding a ballon
Taunt sprite

Goblin's Cage

The goblin's cage, alongside its key.

Debris

The debris after the cage is destroyed.

Old Pillar John Animations

Some old sprites for Pillar John. Since these sprites were never reused after his redesign, they've remained in the game's files using his earlier design.

spr_hungrypillar_mouth
Pillar John opening his mouth to be fed Toppins, a scrapped mechanic that was last used for Demo 2.
spr_hungrypillar_happy
Pillar John smiling. When the game's Toppin feed mechanic was still used, he would smile after you fed him all five Toppins. In later builds, he would smile if you walked away after approaching him.

Old Pause Screen

Sprites for one of the old pause screens (titled spr_pausescreen) that was used from the SAGE 2019 demo up to the April 2021 builds. It fully covers the screen and only gives three options, featuring Peppino's face next to the text.

Continuing a level.
Restarting a level, which wouldn't work if you were in a hub room for example.
Exiting a level or returning to the title screen if you were in a hub room.

Old Player HUD

This HUD, featuring just the face of the character you're playing as on the left side of the screen with an inventory slot and a speed bar, was used for half of the game's development and was updated over time with new animations for different characters and their transformations. It wouldn't be until the April 2021 Patreon build that it got replaced with the TV HUD used in the final game.

Almost all the sprites of the old HUD are here. The ones that no longer exist are the TV score displays.

Peppino

It's not Peppino anymore. It's Pepino.

spr_pepinoHUD
Peppino's idle animation. Earlier, it was used when he had 2 HP left.
spr_pepinoHUD_shove
Switching the leading player during coop. This is the only HUD sprite that doesn't have Peppino's clothes colored yellow, meaning it doesn't support palette swaps.
spr_pepinoHUDmach1
Peppino running at mach 1 or when preparing a super jump.
spr_pepinoHUDmach2
Peppino running at mach 2.
spr_pepinoHUDmach3
Peppino running at mach 3.
spr_pepinoHUDmach4
Peppino running at mach 4.
spr_pepinoHUDthunder
Peppino getting struck by lightning, turning him into a knight.
spr_pepinoHUDknight
Peppino in the knight transformation.
spr_pepinoHUDscream
Peppino panicking while in the bomb transformation.
spr_pepinoHUDbombend
Peppino's exploded face after the bomb explodes.
spr_pepinoHUDrolling
Peppino either in the ball transformation or rolling.
spr_pepinoHUDhappy
Peppino unlocking a door.
spr_pepinoHUDhurt
Peppino taking damage.
spr_pepinoHUDstun
Peppino during a groundpound.
spr_pepinoHUDpanic
Peppino's idle face during Pizza Time.
spr_pepinoHUDmenacing
Peppino with a high combo.
spr_pepinoHUD3hp
Peppino after taking out enemies. Earlier, it was used when he had 3 HP left.
spr_pepinoHUD1hp
Peppino looking delirious while being chased by Pizzaface. Earlier, it was used when he had 1 HP left.

The Noise

spr_noiseHUD_idle
The Noise's idle animation.
spr_noiseHUD_shove
Switching the leading player during coop.
spr_noiseHUD_mach1
The Noise running at mach 1 or when preparing a super jump.
spr_noiseHUD_mach2
The Noise running at mach 2.
spr_noiseHUD_mach3
The Noise running at mach 3.
spr_noiseHUD_crazyrun
The Noise running at mach 4. Interestingly, the name for this animation is crazyrun instead of mach4 like Peppino's animation.
spr_noiseHUD_thunder
The Noise getting struck by lightning, turning him into a knight.
spr_noiseHUD_knight
The Noise in the (fork)knight transformation.
spr_noiseHUD_panic
The Noise during Pizza Time. Also used for the bomb transformation, as he, unlike Peppino, does not have a separate animation for it.
spr_noiseHUD_bomb
The Noise's exploded face after the bomb explodes.
spr_noiseHUD_happy
The Noise unlocking a door.
spr_noiseHUD_hurt
The Noise taking damage.
spr_noiseHUD_groundpound
The Noise during a groundpound.
spr_noiseHUD_lowhealth
The Noise sweating while being chased by Pizzaface. Used in earlier builds to indicate he was low on HP.
spr_noiseHUD_menacing
The Noise with a high combo.
spr_noiseHUD_angry
The Noise after taking out enemies.

The Vigilante

spr_playerV_normalHUD
The Vigilante's idle animation.
spr_playerV_machHUD
The Vigilante with any level of mach.
spr_playerV_happyHUD
The Vigilante looking cool after collecting toppings to restore his HP.
spr_playerV_hurtHUD
The Vigilante taking damage.
spr_playerV_angryHUD
The Vigilante while taking out enemies.
spr_playerV_panicHUD
The Vigilante during Pizza Time.

Misc

This HUD wasn't just about faces...

spr_inv
Inventory slot for the key. Unlike most early HUD elements, this one survived all the way to Octobe22.
spr_speedbar
A bar showing how fast you're going. It'll be at max on mach 3. The bar itself was tiled in-game by a few degrees.
spr_speedbarmax
The bar rapidly flashing, showing you're in mach 4.
spr_shotgunbackup
Display besides the inventory slot indicating you've got an extra shotgun, a mechanic that was used in the SAGE 2019 demo.
spr_fuelHUD
A fuel display that went right under the score, which was used by the scrapped chainsaw move, which had limited time usage.
spr_bulletHUD
A bullet counter that went next to the fuel display.
spr_pizzaHUD
A reload system for the shotgun to show how long it would take before the gun was reloaded. In pre-release footage, it would have tracked the amount of Pizza Points you had, with single points (pizza toppings, defeated enemies) showing up as a single pizza slice on the HUD, and 10 points being shown as the number of full pizzas you had.
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Usage is unknown, since it didn't show up after a reload.

Pizza Time HUD Element

These two sprites of a watch on Peppino's wrist originally appeared beside the bar that appears during Pizza Time as seen in old development streams. The code for animating the sprites still exists in the Create and Step events for obj_tv, but the Draw GUI event is missing the code to make the sprites appear.

Used throughout most of Pizza Time.
Used when time is almost up.

Old Exit Gates

The old exit gate that was used from Early Test Build to the Blue Block Land Builds still exists in the final game. Another variant is a version of the gate with the word “EXIT” on it, which was used from the SAGE 2019 Demo to the Rework Build.

Old Doors

Various old door designs are left in the game. Less is more might just be this game's motto, because the door designs were changed to be the same generic design, although each floor has a different door design of its own.

An old door design from all the way back to the Early Test Build.
The door used before the Pepperman chase.
A golden door that would've been used in Pizzascape's treasure room.
The door that would've been used for leaving Pizzascape's first interior section.

Old Character Cube

Sprites from an old character change cube object still exist in the final game, however the Noise's sprite for the cube still uses his color palette from the Peppino's Xmas Break demo.

Pizzahead Boss Fight Sketches

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Elaborate based on some of the stuff seen in the September 2021 build.

A good number of sketches created for the 2nd and 3rd phases of Pizzahead's boss fight are in the game's files as separate sprites created from cutouts. Not every attack seen here appears during the final fight.

Used Attacks

spr_pizzahead_transition1
Pizzahead in the Pizzaface capsule, who controls it instead of sitting on a toilet.
spr_pizzahead_transition2
Pizzahead jumping out of Pizzaface.
spr_pizzahead_look
Pizzahead preparing to grab something from underneath.
spr_pizzahead_fishing
Pizzahead grabbing something.
spr_pizzahead_sexypicture1
Pizzahead grabbing a picture of himself.
spr_pizzahead_sexypicture2
Pizzahead quickly hiding the picture.
spr_pizzahead_throw
Pizzahead throwing something away, likely the gun loadout.

Unused Phase 2 Attacks

spr_pizzahead_bombrun
Pizzahead with a bomb.
spr_pizzahead_bomb
A bomb that Pizzahead drops.
spr_pizzahead_bombrunaway
Pizzahead running away from the bomb.
spr_pizzahead_eat1
Pizzahead holding a Stupid Rat.
spr_pizzahead_eat2
Pizzahead eating the rat rather than throwing it.
spr_pizzahead_enguarde
Pizzahead as a musketeer, ready for Peppino to come at him.
spr_pizzahead_portraitthrow
Pizzahead throwing Peppino's face from the old HUD as mentioned above. Was likely adapted into the bouncing TV attack.
spr_pizzahead_surprisebox
The only sketches with animations - Pizzahead using a surprise box from behind.

Scrapped 3rd Phase

One of the more bizarre things that these sketches reveal is that the final phase was going to play out a lot different than in the final game. Originally, Pizzahead wouldn't have pulled the floor bosses up for Peppino to rematch, but instead completely lose it with attacks depicting him frantically charging and punching Peppino. According to the developers and playtesters, this phase was scrapped as the developers didn't want to portray Pizzahead as an angry character, and instead be seen as nothing more than a clown. The proper sprites that were created for this phase never showed up in the game's files at all.

A couple of duplicate sketches exist as well in the form of spr_pizzahead and spr_pizzahead2.

spr_pizzahead_bigkickstart
Pizzahead preparing to kick.
spr_pizzahead_bigkick
Pizzahead launching a kick.
spr_pizzahead_bigkickhitbox
Part of Pizzahead's big kick.
spr_pizzahead_dash
Pizzahead dashing towards Peppino.
spr_pizzahead_groundpunch
Pizzahead punching the ground.
spr_pizzahead_headslam
Pizzahead slamming his head into the ground.
spr_pizzahead_headslam2
Pizzahead damaging his face from the headslam.
spr_pizzahead_getout
An attack in which Pizzahead screams at Peppino to get out.
spr_pizzahead_getoutprojectile
The projectile that Pizzahead screams.
spr_pizzahead_giantpunch
Pizzahead punching the ground from the other side.
spr_pizzahead_spinning
Pizzahead spinning out of rage.
spr_pizzahead_spinningkick
Pizzahead performing a spinning kick.
spr_pizzahead_spinningpunch
Pizzahead performing a lariat.

Placeholder Flush Cards

There's crude placeholder versions of the flush cards seen in Fast Food Saloon that lack any animations. These were used in the Rework build, in the Pinball level.

spr_flush_facedownOLD
Turned flush card.
spr_flush_pizzaOLD
Flush card with a pizza.
spr_flush_ratOLD
Flush card with a rat snout.
spr_flush_skullOLD
Flush card with a skull.

Noise's Boss Fight Sprites

The background for The Noise's old boss arena is still present in the files...

As are a few uncolored, non animated sprites for the phase 2 cutscene, used as a base for the finalized sprites.

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Peppino looking at the flying Noise balloon.
spr_noise_phasetrans3P
Peppino screaming.
spr_noise_phasetrans4P
Peppino looking at the Noise.
spr_noise_phasetrans2
The Noise looking at his flying Noise balloon.
spr_noise_phasetrans3
The Noise screaming.
spr_noise_phasetrans4
The Noise looking scared.

Miscellaneous Placeholder Graphics

Placeholder Horsey

A crudely drawn placeholder graphic of a horse used as a placeholder for Horsey in prerelease builds.

Cardboard Tank Placeholder

A very basic placeholder graphic for the Cardboard Tank.

Car Placeholder

An equally basic placeholder graphic for a car.

Placeholder Gabaghoul

A placeholder Sprite for the Gabaghoul enemies.

Placeholder Arrow

A placeholder for the Noise Goblins arrows.

Placeholder Jumpscare

A placeholder for either the Halloween Update jumpscare panels or the Toppin Monster jumpscare, however it's not 100% speculated what this could've been for.

Unused Enemy Animations

Unused Cheeseslime animations

The most common enemy has some unused animations, all leftover from 2018-era builds. The turning and falling animations even then went unused as the turning felt slow, and Cheeseslimes don't fall off ledges. The bounce and bounce recovery animations are leftovers from when they could be used like springs.

Eggplantmobile idle

An unused idling animation for the Eggplantmobile, leftover from their initial concept of being recruitable in the scrapped Mansion level, and using their abilities to the player's advantage.

Peasanto idle

Like the Eggplantmobile, this was used for the scrapped Mansion level where the farmers from Fun Farm would help you out, however the idle animation is only one frame.

Placeholder electric potato

This was a simple placeholder graphic from both the Eggplant and September 2021 Rework builds meant for the electric potatoes in Fun Farm.

Pineacool Parrying

Originally the Pineacool enemies would taunt to the beat of a level's music, similar to the enemies in the New Super Mario Bros. games, though this was scrapped. Pineacools still taunt when the player taunts near them, though this feature being removed disallowed them the ability to potentially parry the player.

Big Cheese death sprite

The Big Cheeses weren't always invincible, evidently; In early builds such as the Golf demo, these enemies could be KO'd, with this sprite being used upon defeat.

Mr. Pinch body parts

spr_pinchbody1
spr_pinchbody2
spr_pinchbody3

Mr. Pinch was originally going to have a full body rather than lie in a pipe. Oddly enough, the legs are the only animated body parts. This was scrapped for the final game.

Old ninja sprites

Introduced in the April Fool’s 2019 build, the Ninja pizzas originally had more detailed and more shaded sprites and carried pizza cutters in their hands, similar to the Indian Cheeseslimes of the Western build.

UFOlive Fall and land sprites

The grounded versions of the UFOlives have unused fall and landing sprites. Seeing as how they are usually in spaces where they walk from side to side and can’t jump, it’s obvious as to why this was scrapped and not used.

Noisey Jumping

When the Noiseys were re-occurring enemies, rather than a boss hazard, they had 2 phases; Their 1st being the normal walking one, and then the 2nd one where they bounce around on a spring. Likely scrapped for it being deemed too hard to attack them in this state, especially on the front.

Toppin Monsters walking

There are walking animations for the Mushroom and Cheese Monsters. In early versions of the Don't Make A Sound level, the Toppin Monsters would roam freely and would chase when the player was in their view, instead of only being active when the alarms go off.

Pineapple Toppin summoning the Pineapple Toppin Monster

Also within those early versions, the Pineapple Toppin Monster would be summoned when this Toppin smiled. Only one of the smiling frames gets used in the final game, as one of its taunts.

Pineapple Toppin Monster Jumpscare

This was used in the Eggplant Build when you got jumpscared by an animatronic summoned by the pineapple monster.

Unused Toppins Animations

Pretty old animations for the dudes in the cages, once shown floating in front of level gates if not collected.

Loose Sprites

These sprites are single and don't have several animations that would otherwise make them part of a gallery.

spr_finaljudgement2

The final judgement that is given when the game is first beat was originally permanent. If a player wanted to try for a different judgement, they would have to either delete their save and start over, or start a new game in another save slot. A textless version of this screen can be seen in-game as of update v1.0.594 when attempting to exit the Halloween Event's Tricky Treat bonus level through the starting point using the Ghost transformation before the game closes itself, but this version remains unused. The screen with the textless version appears to be some sort of an error handler, because it also appears when doing other unintended things in the game

spr_palettedresserpalettes

An old version of the dresser palette. Interestingly, there seems to be a bright pink palette not used in the final game, which could presumably be an early version of the Garnish Cook palette.

spr_boatexterior

The ship the player would get off of.

Found from the beach level in a room named "beach_6", this was the old version of the S.S. Ship found in Crust Cove in the final game.

Pedestal

A pedestal that would have been used in Pizzascape that belongs to the "medievalgroup" texture group in game's files, but was never used.

spr_golfbillboard

A billboard from the April Fool’s 2019 build. It is a DOOM parody, showing a redrawn version of the game’s boxart, but with Pizza Tower characters.

Sideways ventilator

There is an unused sprite where the ventilators are sideways (or up straight). This was used in the October 2022 build in Peppibot Factory as a way to dash with the box transformation. A similar concept was used in Eggplant build, but there it used the standard dash panel. This was perhaps a way to differentiate the transformation ones to the normal ones.