Pizza Legacy

About

Pizza Connection, rebuilt from scratch

Pizza Legacy is my hobby project (started in 2010) to reimplement the 1994 DOS game Pizza Tycoon. In Germany, the game was originally released for the Amiga as Pizza Connection. For modern audiences, the 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 DOS version of Pizza Tycoon/ Pizza Connection. It is available digitally and frequently goes on sale for under 1 euro. If you have a legal copy of the original DOS game lying around somewhere that should also work fine.

You can find the source in my Codeberg repository.

Get the original game: GOG → Steam →

Check out the manual for the original: pizzatycoon.org →

Status

How far along is it?

The core loop is working; you can open restaurants, hire staff, design pizzas and compete with computer players. Important to note though that most of my time is still spent on development of missing features so I've not done a lot of playtesting yet.

Working

Original assets (graphics, sound, data files) mostly decoded and functioning
Up to 8 human players (hotseat); remaining players are computer controlled
All cities with three zoom levels and district info
Property market: browse, rent, buy, sell via estate agent
Restaurant layout: furniture, floor coverings, kitchen equipment
Pizza design: all ingredients, standard recipes, custom creations
Saving and loading of recipes (using F1/F2), including exchanging with the original!
Pizza judging: 5-judge scoring with demographic & flavour analysis
Staff management: hire, fire, wages (chefs, waiters, manager)
Advertising: flyers, posters, TV campaigns with cost tracking
Supply chain: stock, supplier selection (single-order purchasing only)
Financial tracking: money, balance sheets, ledgers, loans, investments
Save and load game state (JSON)
Working jukebox with original in-game music playback
Newspaper with events, trends, and price movements
Developer console & other development tools
End of day/end of week/end of month financial overviews
Social status & mafia (v0.0.2+)

Missing

Original save game support (no plans to support this)
Mission mode
Pizza competitions
Supplier contracts
Most of what the Mayor does (awards, etc)
~~CV and related events & fullscreen status updates~~ (v0.0.2+)
Insurance
~~Property overview screen~~ (v0.0.2+)
~~Daily profits overview screen~~ (v0.0.2+)
~~Customer tastes screen~~ (v0.0.2+)
Customer walking animations
Attacks and cloak-and-dagger operations
~~Staff: random events (lateness, theft, illness), training~~ (v0.0.2+)
Training courses
Newspaper advertising

Plans for the future

There is still a lot of work to do before we even get to this, but I do have some long term plans.

Tutorial

Pizza Connection 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.

Support for Amiga assets

I took a detour into also supporting the Amiga assets but I gave up in favor of finishing the game with DOS support first; there is partial support but nothing near a working version yet.

Quality of life improvements

Some things in the original could be somewhat annoying, like ordering ingredients. I'm hoping to be able to add some ways to improve this. Nothing concrete yet though.

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