Hello and welcome to the first major Early Access update for Ninja Pizza Girl!

New Features

Speedruns This enigmatically greyed-out menu item has been fully activated, allowing you to tackle individual levels or the entire game as a race against the clock. Online leaderboards let you see how you measure against the rest of the Ninja Pizza Girl-playing populace. A specialised Speedrunning in-game interface shows Personal best, World record and level-based time splits to hone your pizza-delivering skills.Times are measured to thousandths of a second ‘cause we're expecting the competition to be fierce! Put on your best shoes, grab the pizza and get ready to fly. Options Options Options Okay, a fully functional options menu mightn’t sound like the most exciting thing in the world but there are hidden gems contained within it’s now comprehensive architecture. Alongside typical functions such as windowed mode (youtubers rejoice!) and audio controls, there are a selection of highly customisable difficulty options. Like the game how it is but your reflexes aren’t up to task? Just slow the whole game down! Finished the game but want a new challenge? Try playing it at 1.5x speed! With the ability to individually tweak game speed, enemy aggression, time pressure and more, everyone can experience Ninja Pizza Girl the way they like it. Updated FX Delivering pizza just got a whole lot splashier. Gemma now has a host of water-based impact FX to enhance the whole pizza-delivering experience as well as extra-swooshy light effects when she gets in the zone.

Bug Fixes

Thanks so much for all of the bug reports! Some of the bugs found were really rare and hard-to-find - we couldn’t have fixed them without you. If you find something that could use some polish, tweaking or major outright fixes, please let us know.

• Gemma no longer goes flying ridiculous amounts when hit by a projectile.
• If you run out of time while floating on a fan, the level now ends correctly.
• The end-of-level UI no longer crashes at the end of the salvage hunting level.
• Cutscene balloon timing has been tweaked so people should actually have time to read them.

Coming Next…

Collectables! New outfits! Cups of Tea and Bubblebath! More cutscenes, including a glimpse of the mysterious CEO of Pizza MeGaCo.

[ 2015-07-01 23:04:34 CET ] [ Original post ]

Ninja Pizza Girl is a serious game about self-esteem, bullying and resilience – and pizza delivering ninjas!

Its deeply-woven story follows Gemma, a sixteen-year-old girl working as a pizza delivery ninja for her father’s independent Pizzeria. In a world where slums teeter on top of skyscrapers, where powerful mega-corporations exploit the poor and where quality pizza is hard to come by, Gemma must fight to keep her ideals, her family and their business intact in face of the most merciless enemies known to any teenage girl – other teenagers.

"Deftly tackling bullying, self awareness and self acceptance, not to mention the challenge of keeping a pizza hot, Ninja Pizza Girl is a beautiful and important game." - Rhianna Pratchett

"Ninja Pizza Girl is a beautifully presented, challenging-but-not-brutal platformer that delivers not only pizza, but important messages about self-worth and bullying. Any young people in your lives—and you!—need this game!" - Karin Weekes

• Accessible flow-based gameplay that welcomes beginners while challenging speedrunners.

• Face enemies that shove, trip, throw garbage in your hair and upload videos of their abuse.

• Unique "health" system that tracks the player's self-esteem

• A mind-melting original soundtrack by the amazing Max Maars who was featured on Triple J's "Unearthed"

• The only videogame to feature the phrase "No Pants. No Pizza."

Ninja Pizza Girl. For Honour. For Family. For Pizza.