Though they try to keep their work and persona online separate from their personal life, ClascyJitto acknowledges "it would be really funny to pull the 'do you know who I am?' card."Īside from leaving the option of hitting a music teacher with a "I co-created a best selling soundtrack" on the table, ClascyJitto told me contributing to Pizza Tower hadn't rocked the boat on their life too much: "It's definitely grounded me in how much nothing changed at all." It wasn't until we homed in on how Pizza Tower's success had affected their life that I asked if they had to balance working on it with a day job, and they told me the "only thing really balancing is school"-namely high school.Īt the time of our conversation they were chafing at the strict formalism of a music theory class-a bit ironic, given the circumstances. It's such a great soundtrack I could barely believe ClascyJitto is still in their teens. Nowadays I would get very tired doing that!" I look back and wonder how I had the patience to put in each note one by one. "Like in Oregano Mirage & Celcius Troubles, the melodies are very active in a way. Seriously, it's nothing but pre-Financial Crisis magic, a timeline where Sega managed to keep making hardware. The tracklist is pretty evenly split between both composers, with the chill main menu theme Pizza Deluxe provided by guest composer Post Elvis, and despite their different backgrounds and wide geographic gulf (ClascyJitto is based on the east coast of the US, de Castel in France), they managed to create a massive, yet very cohesive soundtrack united by that propulsive, funky, almost infectiously optimistic early aughts vibe. "Ronan liked the remixes and McPig suggested the idea of bringing me on as another composer for the game." De Castel had already been brought on as composer by lead developer McPig, and both were impressed by ClascyJitto's takes on the early soundtrack. "I joined the Discord way early in development and I started making remixes of some of the early versions of the songs that were out," ClascyJitto told me. The indie devs worked on it for five years bolstered by an active Discord, and that community is where de Castel and ClascyJitto first came to the project as fans. Pizza Tower is already a game of the year contender in a packed 2023, with some of the crispiest, most inspired 2D platforming of the past 10 years forming the dough underneath that gorgeous art and bangin' soundtrack's sauce, cheese, anchovies, pineapples, etc. I was always confident that my music was good, but seeing all these real people confirm that is very pleasant." ClascyJitto
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