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Question 1:
Where did Sarge come from? |
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Answer 1:
Sarge and his minions come from the Land of Munchmore. Not much is known about this mysterious land that is populated by all sorts of wild, semi-intelligent food. Professor Fitz seems to think that it is a parallel world, a sort of alternate dimension. It appears that the only way to travel between worlds is through strange portals. When Sarge kidnapped the customers, these portals appeared within each of the apartments above Papa’s Pizzeria. |
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Question 2:
Why were some customers absent in Burgeria, Freezeria, and Pancakeria? |
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Answer 2:
When making a Gameria, we try to keep the game’s filesize relatively low to keep load times fast. Some of those games (especially Pancakeria) were reaching our self imposed filesize cap, so we had to cut out some of the customers. However, as global internet speeds continue to increase, we have slowly raised our filesize cap. This means that some of the newer Gamerias have included all the current customers. Now that is the technical reason, but we much prefer the fun reasons, like Allan moving away for a few years or Mary’s fear of sailing. |
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Question 3:
Once in Papa’s Hot Doggeria, Pinch Hitwell came in with a different uniform. Why does he change his outfit so much? |
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Answer 3:
Pinch is a professional pinch hitter for Griller Stadium. Griller Stadium is an independent ballpark and each week it hosts a new home team. Pinch Hitwell’s plays for whoever is currently the home team. That is why you will see Pinch in a different uniform each week.
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If you have any other questions, click the “Ask a Question!” button at the bottom of the blog!
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Question 1:
What’s the process for deciding on each customer’s unique order? Do you keep a rough idea of the customers’ personalities and try to match their orders to them? |
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Answer 1:
We do keep track of many customers’ tastes, and use that to help us figure out their orders in each new game. When we’re first planning the new game and deciding when each topping will be unlocked, we try to match it with a customer who would order that topping. For example, Prudence ordered pickles in Burgeria (and has a dog named Pickle!), so she also appears when pickles are unlocked in Hot Doggeria. Later in the game, sometimes we realize we haven’t used much of an ingredient by a certain point, so a customer that’s unlocked around then will order that item (as long as it makes sense for that character).
We try to refer back to their previous orders as often as we can, so Wally continues to order mayo and seafood whenever they’re in a game, and Sarge Fan gets onions or Wild Onion sauce (or berries if he can’t get onions). Big Pauly always get something terribly unhealthy, though he’s making an effort in Hot Doggeria with some Diet Fizzo. |
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Question 2:
Have you ever worked in fast food yourselves? |
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Answer 2:
Matt: I worked in a pizzeria during high school and college. Some nights it really would be as hectic as in the games, especially if someone was stuck doing everything alone like Roy does in Papa’s Pizzeria. Papa’s customers are very picky, but there were plenty of people like that in real life too: One customer always demanded a refund if his pizza wasn’t cut perfectly evenly.
Tony: The closest thing to a job in fast food was working as a busboy at a TGI Fridays. I didn’t get to cook or prep any food, but I was paid mainly in tips. |
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Question 3:
Just like Clover’s brother is Marty, are there any more relatives? |
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Answer 3:
Obviously, the Romano Family Quartet members are related. Vicky is Mindy’s mom and Xolo is Xandra’s brother. There are more relatives, but you will have to wait until a Flipdeck reveals it.
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If you have any other questions, click the “Ask a Question!” button at the bottom of the blog!
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Question 1:
Who is Little Edoardo’s wife, the mother of Bruna and Carlo? |
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Answer 1:
Little Edoardo’s wife was the late Giordana Romano. Unfortunately, she passed away 10 years ago of old age (she was 8 years older than Little Edoardo). |
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Question 2:
What gave you your idea of your first game, Remnants of Skystone? |
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Answer 2:
Remnants of Skystone was actually our fourth game (Papa Louie, Papa’s Pizzeria, and Rock Garden were released earlier).
After working on Papa Louie, we were throwing around ideas for a new platformer where different classes of characters had different platforming abilities, which would be used to navigate the same levels in different ways. We were also interested in making something with a larger interconnected map in Metroidvania style.
When Kongregate started funding large-scale games for its “Premium Games” program, we came back to this concept, and brainstormed on different ways characters could navigate a level. We eventually narrowed it down to ability sets of flying, climbing, and swinging, and figured out what types of combat would go best with with those movesets. Kongregate suggested pitching something with an edgier or grittier feel, so we imagined a sort of ruined world that these three types of characters were trying to reclaim. We started out with a Steampunk theme for our flying class of Aeronauts, and we strayed into tribal and mountain-climbing themes for the other classes to make them each unique and relate to their abilities. We’re big fans of the 16-bit Metroid and Castlevania platformers, so Skystone was very much inspired by those games. |
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Question 3:
Will be there a “save backup” function for the other Papa’s games? |
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Answer 3:
We have just updated Papa’s Freezeria and Papa’s Taco Mia with backups! Now all our Gamerias have “Save Backups” except Burgeria and Pizzeria, which unfortunately will not be getting the backup option because they’re made with earlier versions of Flash that won’t support it.
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