cowomaly

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by cowomaly 4mo ago
Author here: As part of my reimplementation of Pizza Tycoon for my open source Pizza Legacy engine, I had to figure out how to win the game, and in the process I found a bug and/or a marketing ploy :) Let me know if you have any questi
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Bug hunt: Why you only need Paris to beat Pizza Tycoon (1994)(pizzalegacy.nl)
2 points by cowomaly 4mo ago|1 comments
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by cowomaly 6mo ago
Yeah the DOS version was called Pizza Tycoon everywhere. The Amiga version was in German and was called Pizza Connection. Only for the digital re-release in 2017 did they go with Pizza Connection, but all the assets of the DOS version (incl
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by cowomaly 6mo ago
There are some rules where in their collision detection they basically don't check; for example cars going east will never intersect with cars going south so just drive through them. I'm not sure if this was an optimisation to jus
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by cowomaly 6mo ago
I'm writing the engine from scratch (not re-creating the original engine) so it definitely won't have the original bug. Of course I'll have my own bugs but at least its open source now so it's fixable by more people :D
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by cowomaly 6mo ago
That's true! In the original if you don't have at least 3 of the pizza recipes from the "cook book" that shipped with the game your restaurant popularity stat gets divided by 8, which makes it really difficult to make an
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by cowomaly 6mo ago
I tried the sequels and they never clicked for me either. Probably also due to the missing nostalgia factor :) As to why I did this; when I had some time between university and starting a job many years ago I was looking for a hobby coding