The Popgoes Pizzeria

*This article is about the location where POPGOES Evergreen is set. For other uses, see Popgoes (disambiguation).*

## The Popgoes Pizzeria

### Games Appearance

*POPGOES Arcade*
*POPGOES Evergreen*

### Inhabitants

* Popgoes the Weasel
* Blake the Badger
* Sara the Squirrel
* Saffron the Squirrel
* Stone the Crow
* Blackrabbit
* Simon

**The Popgoes Pizzeria** is the main location where the event of *POPGOES Arcade* and*POPGOES Evergreen* takes place. It is a family restaurant created by Fritz Blade in 2024.

## Layout

### Main Hall

The Main Hall is where the player is located at.

### *Unnamed Room*

This unknown room is a replacement of the "Birthday Room" in the original POPGOES.

## Early Designs

### First Version

During the early modeling of the location, it was realized on early January 2021 that one of the 3D modelers (who now had left the development team) had been using purchased models that breaches the term of license if used. Theses props were used on the Kitchen and another room that had not been revealed at the time, which meant they had to be remade from scratch.

The changes are made later in the month, and the only affected room shown before this change is the Kitchen. Although, some closer shots of the early design of Kitchen were shown.

KitchenClose ups of KitchenClose ups of KitchenClose ups of Kitchen
### Skylight Lighting

Before the changes in late January 2021, the rooms in The Popgoes Pizzeria had used the moonlight in the night as their lighting via the window on the ceilings. However, after the reveal of the Kitchen's design to the public, fans had complained that "it is hard to make out anything" in the room due to the lighting. Putting this into consideration, it was realized that this lighting method also brought several other issues:

* Every room has similar look due to the identical colour and style of lighting.
* It is difficult to balance the brightness of the lighting so that the lighting is bright enough to see the room's contents, but dark enough to realistically be coming from the moon.
* Each room has a unique shape and size, which means the angle, brightness and color of the lighting is difficult to get right in development to keep the consistency.
* A subtle "night cycle" was planned for the game, in which the color of the lighting, and the sky in the right view window, changes based on player's progress. Using skylight means every cameras are affected, and would be a very complicating process.
* The soft lighting and the shadows from the window frame makes it hard to make parts of the room out.

After deciding to remove the skylight, the development team had two alternative plans, the first being "emergency lights" that existed in the light bulbs of each room, with dim, possibly color-coded sources of light in the center of each environment. The second alternative is to add flashlights to each camera. Eventually, they decided on the latter, as not only it solved the aforementioned problems, but it's also very suitable for a horror game, and even goes parallel to *Five Nights at Freddy's 2* (as in this universe, Fritz Glade who is the owner of The Popgoes Pizzeria worked as the night guard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza in FNaF 2).

The Kitchen and the Arcade Room, which was used in *POPGOES Arcade*, were the only rooms that are shown prior to this change.

KitchenArcade Room
### Pre-"Operation Embiggen"

"**Operation Embiggen**" was a change to the location's model made around early July 2021. Prior to this plan, the size of the rooms and the scale of the objects in said rooms are inaccurate and inconsistent. This was not realized until the doors in the Main Hall was removed and the Main Hall and other rooms are openly connected. Thus, changes had to be made yet again to rooms that were already finished as of then. These rooms being the Kitchen, Art Room, an unknown room that replaced the Birthday Room in the original game, Arcade Room, Party Room, Server Room, as well as the Main Hall that was work in progress. Some of the rooms needed to be shrunk, while some needed to be enlarged and additional props needed to be made to fill in the empty space.

The following gallery includes rooms before the changes. The changes are currently the final version.

KitchenArcade RoomArt Room
## References

1. ↑ "POPGOES Evergreen - Operation Embiggen" - Kane Carter on Game Jolt

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