Pizza Legacy

About

Pizza Tycoon, rebuilt from scratch

Pizza Legacy is my hobby project (started in 2010) to reimplement the 1994 DOS game Pizza Tycoon. The original game was released in German for the Amiga and DOS as Pizza Connection. For modern audiences, the English DOS version was re-released digitally in 2017 using DOSBox under the same name, Pizza Connection.

My goal is to create a full implementation of the original engine only; this means that the assets are not included so you will need a copy of the English language DOS version of Pizza Tycoon / Pizza Connection. It is available digitally and frequently goes on sale for under a euro. If you have a legal copy of the original English DOS game lying around somewhere that should also work fine.

Get the original game: GOG Steam

Check out the manual for the original: pizzatycoon.org

Status

How far along is it?

Pizza Legacy is feature complete! As of v1.0.0-beta.1, every gameplay system from the original is implemented: free mode and mission mode, restaurants, staff, pizzas, competitors, random staff events, mayor award ceremonies, police and mafia interactions, pizza competitions, restaurant attacks, newspaper advertising, and staff training: it's all there. You can play the game from start to finish, get a high score, go bust, or win.

The only thing not supported is the original save game format (and there are no plans to support it). Development is now focused on playtesting, balancing, and bug fixing towards a stable v1.0.0 release.

Plans for the future

Stable v1.0.0

With all features in place, the road to a stable release is extensive playtesting, balancing against the original, bug fixing and polish. Found something off? Reports are very welcome!

Tutorial

Pizza Tycoon was not the easiest game to get into, so I built the engine with a tutorial layer in mind to help new players find their way through.

Pizza Connection assets

I'm considering support for the (German language) Pizza Connection assets; I started working on the Amiga assets already and have it partially working, but since then I've found the DOS version of Pizza Connection as well and that is considerably closer to the English version so much easier to support.

Quality of life improvements

Some things in the original could be somewhat annoying or difficult to do, so increasing quality of life for players is something I'd like to do. I've already made quite a few improvements, and I'm hoping to be able to add more ways to improve the playability of the game. If you have ideas, reach out! Create an issue on Codeberg or reach me on Mastodon.

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