Awfully Good Pizza

co-authored: @audrey
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.68
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.74
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.64
Theme★★★★★★★★★★2.94
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.25
Humor★★★★★★★★★★4.38
Have you ever wanted to open a pizzeria?
Have you ever wanted to sink as deep into debt as possible?
Well have we got the game for you!

Awfully Good Pizza pays homage to the pizza-making flash games of old, and the fact that nobody actually wanted to make pizzas that looked good in them. I mean let's be honest, we've all played one and just thrown as much junk on there as possible at least once, right?
Well in Awfully Good Pizza, that's the entire aim of the game!

Your goal as the TRUE PIZZA VILLAIN is to create a pizza specifically to ruin the day of each customer who enters your shop, all in an attempt to sink deeper and deeper into debt. The more debt you're in, the better!

Featuring a total of 25 unique customers, 10 ingredients to choose from and precisely one gameplay feature, Awfully Good Pizza is "fun" for the whole family.

Use your mouse to select menu buttons and place down ingredients*.

Press F to toggle Fullscreen.

Hold the mouse button down during the intro cutscene to skip it!

*Ingredients cannot be removed because why would anyone want to do that

Comments30

torcado
torcado27 Apr 2021, 00:55
haha this is so cute! the character designs are so lovely, no surprise there. the intro cutscene is great, you don't see that very often with LD games. great music too, really sets the whole mood.
other than there not having much of a goal, exploring the different characters and expressions is really fun!
ITX Demi27 Apr 2021, 15:16
i have spent hours creating a pizza that someone hated so much. i cannot explain this game in another light than seeing god. you can truly become the villain of all pizza - the bane of someone's heartfelt order. you can stack arches, stairways, toppings on top of other toppings, pizza faces, make the toppings go past the screen limit, etc. i would recommend this to everyone. this game is truly a 10/10 just in the topping mechanic alone, a 10/10 in any household, and deserves to be on the top 500 games you play before you die (at number 1.) there is absolutely no way that this game shouldn't win the game jam.
AndrewDavidJ
AndrewDavidJ27 Apr 2021, 15:35
Haha, this game is wild! Love the visual aesthetic :P
tubular27 Apr 2021, 19:25
Beautiful art. Very squishy and silly vibes. Great little game.
EllenBJohnson27 Apr 2021, 19:36
Looks amazing! I couldn't get it to work, though. The mouse clicks wouldn't place ingredients for me.
sdata
sdata27 Apr 2021, 20:04
Fantastic character designs and really effective flourishes with the scrolling background behind the toppings and the initial pizza rollout animation! I had a good time with it and it definitely brought me back to food making flash games in the same vein
Uppitydonkey5727 Apr 2021, 21:13
This game is hilarious. I love the idea and the weird art means the idea gets carried the idea across perfectly. This game satisfies the second grader in me!
Glaas
Glaas27 Apr 2021, 21:41
Not the biggest fan of the gameplay itself, but the art and mood are INCREDIBLE, great job !!
diabolical-sloth
diabolical-sloth27 Apr 2021, 22:43
this looks amazing and I really want to play it but the mouse didn't seem to place ingredients for me! I'm going to try it again tomorrow on a different machine and hopefully it'll work then as this looks super cool
Nathalia Hohl
Nathalia Hohl27 Apr 2021, 22:51
I loved the idea and had fun ruining people's day (maybe lives). But I wished it had some objective and felt it was too long (didn't really finished playing).

The art is very charming, keep up the good work in that!
Brainloaf Studio
Brainloaf Studio28 Apr 2021, 12:02
Absolutely beautiful. Art in its most pizza-like form. Big fan of Hommer Lemonhead. Well done. Now if you'll excuse me, I have more pizza to ruin.
m11
m1128 Apr 2021, 16:12
Short, silly, and wonderful! Great mood :)
Yeil
Yeil28 Apr 2021, 17:15
Good idea and surprisingly cool graphics)) The characters are very funny))
gord10ahmet
gord10ahmet28 Apr 2021, 18:46
Hilarious game, I had great fun playing it!
PowerAnze
PowerAnze28 Apr 2021, 18:59
Character design was great and so expressive animations!
notpresident35
notpresident3528 Apr 2021, 20:37
I'd like to introduce you to my masterpiece

I call it "Carbon Nano-Tubes"

Also would highly recommend spending a day serving literally everyone pizzas with 0 ingredients.

10/10 absolutely terrible game in the best way possible
TomatoLamp
TomatoLamp28 Apr 2021, 21:17
Show this game to anyone who thinks games aren't art and move over Townscaper, we're making pizzas now!

Hilarious concept and amazing art - very little to say here except great work everyone!
Chad Mongo29 Apr 2021, 00:24
Honestly, the True Pizza Villain is the type of person we should all aspire to be.
I would have given you a perfect score for the really groundbreaking messages of the game, BUT I got scared by creepypasta Mario and I don't appreciate being sPOOKED.
Peace Of Cake Games
Peace Of Cake Games29 Apr 2021, 07:35
This game is pure genius. Not only do you get to play as the greatest pizza villain ever and ruin everyone's lives, you also get to make art without ever having to run back out to the store for more ingredients. 😈

Beautiful polish on the art and gameplay, and what few sounds are in the game are perfect.

Here are a few demonstrations of the wrath of the ultimate pizza villains: the person playing your game.

What's wrong, Mario? I thought you liked mushrooms.

A beautiful demonstration of pizza topping architecture.

Everyone knows normal pizza has tomato sauce on it, kid. There's no BBQ Chicken option for the pizza so eat your tomatoes like a good boy.

@itx-demi That is an amazing demonstration of the power of the Ultimate Pizza Villains, the players. 👏👏
Juliestrator29 Apr 2021, 10:34
Really enjoyed the game! So so many awesome characters, love their design and aesthetics overall! Music in the intro was awesome! Would love to have some more constrains though, like a timer or a win condition or something! Would love to see this on steam or mobile someday!
Bauke Regnerus
Bauke Regnerus29 Apr 2021, 10:41
As someone who likes to make pizza, this game was a lot of fun. Graphics are simple but do the job. It was funny to figure out how everyone reacts to the pizza. Definitely got that Flash game vibe going on.
JoeDev
JoeDev29 Apr 2021, 13:48
Very funny haha, I loved seeing all the different expressions of rage :joy: also loved that you can stack the ingredients into the sky lol, as I can see from some of the other posts here everyone enjoyed that :eyes: Great art, fun concept, abstract take on the theme == :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
StrangerYann
StrangerYann29 Apr 2021, 14:30
Very cool - great little toy U got out of it - really enjoyed playin around with it :thumbsup:

So I really like your game and I'm streaming Ludum Dare 48 games on saturday with my friend Teauorent on his Twitch channel - https://www.twitch.tv/teauorent - Saturday May 1st 4PM CET
First of all - that cool with you? This may redirect some traffic to your page for more people to try your LD48 game :smile:
If you'd like, please e-mails us anecdotes and sneak peeks of your creative process (photos, screenshots, beta/WIP asset renders, mood boards, concept Art, etc.) so we can present them alongside and illustrate your LD48 adventure to our audience :slight_smile:
Here's our e-mail to send all that good stuff to --> [email protected] [we will confirm receiving your e-mail(s) upon reception]
The show will be in french but I'm bilingual so you can totally submit in english, we'll take care of the rest :slight_smile:

Have a great day, I hope to hear from you soon - thanks for that great moment I spent testing your little nugget of a game, and see you in the chat on saturday I hope :heart: :smile:
Threeli
Threeli1 May 2021, 01:03
Thas' a deep dish. Very slick little sandbox experience. I only wish there was either a goal, or that you'd give these brilliant characters awful things to say to me. I hope you'll continue development!
Mololo
Mololo6 May 2021, 16:35
Very cool idea, I'm impressed by the variety of characters. The game is fun and the animations are great.

Good game overall, good job.
fueelin6 May 2021, 23:44
Nice game! Lots of fun, cute characters! I made some pretty nasty pies. Good work!
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