Reddit AMA with Lou Catanzaro - Tomorrow at 12pm PT/3pm ET

[mjmannella]

Link to the Reddit post.

 

Lou Catanzaro helped found Blue Fang Games as the company's Studio Art Director and UX Designer. Tomorrow, he'll be taking questions from commentors who can ask him just about anything. If you're unsure of what you'd want to ask Lou, now's a good time to start generating questions!

[jbl89]

Purely Zoo Tycoon, if anyone could ask:

 

- Is there stuff hidden in the game that still hasn't been discovered today? E.g. was there a cheat code related to Marwan Jubran (unclear what it does, but there were some indications)?

- Which cut content do you regret the most? E.g. temperature, salinity, gondola, ...? 

- If you used any, what were some of your favorite third party downloads for Zoo Tycoon?

 

 

[HeatherL]

On 10/28/2025 at 3:18 AM, jbl89 said:

- Is there stuff hidden in the game that still hasn't been discovered today? E.g. was there a cheat code related to Marwan Jubran (unclear what it does, but there were some indications)?

- Which cut content do you regret the most? E.g. temperature, salinity, gondola, ...? 

- If you used any, what were some of your favorite third party downloads for Zoo Tycoon?

We can only ask two questions. I also would like to know about the first, so which of the other two is more important to you?

[HeatherL]

Found in a different redditor's post 1 year ago - several comments from Lou Catanzaro:

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/ZooTycoon/comments/1gpmige/these_just_something_about_the_simplicity_of_zoo/?utm_source=embedv2&utm_medium=post_embed&utm_content=post_body&embed_host_url=https://zootekphoenix.com/forums/index.php

 

 

[Goosifer]

One of our openzt devs cracked it early last year:

 

 

 

I wonder if anyone else had noticed before then though. Surely someone must have noticed the cars disappear lol. Kind of a funny mystery.

[jbl89]

Well you'd already need to be aware of the name of the cheat code (I just saw it somewhere long time ago when digging through some strings). 

 

But if you don't know what to look for; cars disappearing would be hard to spot as I usually focused on what was happening in the zoo.