Mold on Pizza

"Mold on Pizza: DELUXE" Icon

**Mold on Pizza** is a tower-offense strategy game released by indie developer BTNcafe in September of 2015. As of 2022, the game's official series only has 2 installments; **Mold on Pizza**, and **Mold on Pizza: DELUXE**. Both versions are not separate games, but rather different versions of the same game.

## History

*The mostly complete story of Mold on Pizza, we think. Dates may be inaccurate, this is simply based off of the BTNcafe KR facebook page and basic knowledge.*

Circa January 2012, BTNcafe is founded, run by Young-jae Sim and Cho Seonwoo, they created a multitude of services, most notably "King of Interview", a job interview trainer app. It appears that this field didn't work out very well, as we enter the next chapter of the story of BTNcafe.

August 9th, 2014. This is the day that BTNcafe becomes a game developer full-time, along with this post, the first ever in-game screenshot of Mold on Pizza is revealed. Before this point, the occasional vague concept art would be shared, along with equally as vague messages. The facebook account for BTNcafe would go on to create promotional posts. Almost a month later, on August 31st, the first trailer for the game is released, featuring early gameplay footage with unfinished backgrounds, and not much else.

Shortly before the game's launch, a facebook post details a pizza party that was held with the members of BTNcafe.

October 16th, 2014, the first download links are released to the public, and thus begins the saga of Mold on Pizza. The game is released as a mobile game for IOS and Android, but as of 2022, all official download links are dead.

October 21st, 2014, version 1.0.5 is released, performance is enhanced.

November 13th, 2014, version 1.1.1 is released, with a multitude of new updates. The rank boards are added, Large is added, Copie is added, and the preservative infocards are added. A minigame is added into the IOS version, it wasn't specified which one.

Circa January 27th ,2015, AI-PVP is in its beta stage.

*And here, we come to a major turning point in the history of the game.*

May 27th, 2015, BTNcafe registers mold on pizza for a steam greenlight, and a day later, Mold on Pizza LITE is released on PC.

June 29th, 2015, Deluxe is teased.

July 14th, 2015, Mold on Pizza: Deluxe reaches their goal, and is greenlit on steam.

August 3rd, 2015, Mold on Pizza: Deluxe is teased for mobile, teased features include PVP, co-op, and "stage".

August 4th, 2015, Mold on Pizza: Deluxe is released on... smart TV?

August 15th, 2015, Mold on Pizza: Deluxe is released on Android.

Jump forward 2 years, Mold on Pizza is silent, BTNcafe is developing Cat World, and it begins to overshadow Mold on Pizza with its popularity.

Early 2018, Asteroid Girl is released, there has been no talk of Mold on Pizza.

February 10th, 2018, I am Skeleton is released, BTNcafe appears to be having trouble, still no talk of Mold on Pizza.

Between then and the next entry, two more games are released, Valkyrie Maker and Sky Islands.

**November 2nd, 2019,** BTNcafe goes out of business due to financial troubles. Young-jae Sim states; *"Also, in order to protect the precious characters of the users who have been nurtured, I plan to maintain the existing games responsibly as time permits instead of irresponsible termination of services."*

In that post, Mold on Pizza is briefly mentioned; "-and a decentralized strategy simulation game."

Since then, Mold on Pizza has been completely silent, BTNcafe has been dormant and has made no posts since, but on October 30th, 2021, the Steam page was silently updated, with no known changes found.