Pizza Portals

Multi-dimensional Pizza Delivery

You are Dash– a typical, every day, ordinary multi-dimensional pizza boy who must deliver two pizzas at exactly the same time to save the multiverse.

Introducing Pizza Portals. A single player 8-Bit NES game… where you play two characters at once. Physics is gonna have to bend a knee.
Watch the Pizza Portals Trailer

"Best Game" of the ByteOff IV Game Jam

Wooohooo! I have been a part of every ByteOff game jam. It is where I created the prototype of the game that evolved into Dungeons & DoomKnights. But this is the first year that my game entry won an award! Thank you to Raftronaut (Music), FJ (Art), and Gil for building Pizza Portals with me!

Features

• Cut-scenes where you have to talk to two different characters at the same time
• Control Dash in two different dimensions at the same time
• Anti-Pasta Cannon
• Split screen puzzle platformer
• Beatable in a short, single sitting
• Secret bonus challenge maps (The win screen tells you how to find them)
• Includes 100% re-made art & animations of characters and monsters from Dungeons & DoomKnights
• Breaks your brain a little.

How to Play

• A = Jump
• B = Shoot Anti-Pasta Cannon
• Walk up to a character to talk to them.

Pizza!?

Byte-Off IV was announced on International Pizza Day. My kids and I were eating pizza while watching the reveal video. That… sorta explains everything 😀 To make the cover art, my son and I went to the local Pappa Johns and asked if we could have a pizza box for our game jam project.  We did a little family shoot and photo-shopped the image. It is sorta tradition now– his sister was the the model for NecroNancy, which was last year’s ByteOff entry. (Update, his brother is the cover of their entry, Dragon Raid.) No A.I. was used in the creation of this deliciously cheesy game.

Known Bugs and Issues

• It is a feature! (Probably)
• In the extremely rare event that your anti-pasta cannon hits an invisible wall when trying to convert a slime monster, you must restart the game 🙁
• If you commit a major delivery violation but are killed by a skeleton before you are sent to the violation screen, the game can bug out and will need restarted.

How to use a .NES file?

Original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) games were played using physical carts. But theses carts can be turned into .NES files that you can play using an emulator on your computer, phone, or tablet. From this page, you can download the Pizza Portals .NES file. You just need an emulator to play it. For computers, I recommend the MESEN emulator. For phones & tablets, I really like the new Delta emulator.

Battle on!
Artix

• Many pizzas were eaten in the creation of this video game.
• Dungeons & DoomKnights is now available on the Nintendo Switch! (Talk about taking things full circle)
• Check out my other games at www.Artix.com