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Pacman

Overview

Pacman. This is a remake of the original game. This revision is played out on a large map (parallax scrolling), includes a minimap, gothic music with a beating heart in the background, an egyptian tileset, hardwood floors and the 4 (Mario) ghosts.

Pacman (previously known as PacChap) is now freely available for download and use, (this game was previously priced at $10 USD).

You can download the zipped file here v0.9(2MB)
Contains an executable file called pacman.exe.
Works on Microsoft Window machines only (requires DirectX 3.0+ to be installed)

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	The Ghost. Note the transparency (accomplished by dithering not alpha blending). The ghost was designed around the Mario ghost character
	Pacman. Made in the classic "pizza style with missing slice" style :)
	Pacman's Minimap. Get a birds eye view of the whole maze. Hitting the tab key toggles the minimap on and off (located on the top left corner)

The Original Pacman

Toru Iwatani, the original game designer behind the wildly successful Pacman franchise.

Excerpts taken from "Programmers at Work" by Susan Lammers published in 1986

"The original concept came from two elements. The kanji word 'taberu', to eat, came to mind. I started playing with the word, making sketches in my notebook. In Japanese the character for mouth (kuchi) is a square shape. It's not circular like the pizza, but I decided to round it out."

"Food is the other part of the basic concept. In my initial design I had put the player in the midst of food all over the screen. As I thought about it. I realised the player wouldn't know exactly what to do: So I created a maze and put the food in it...(giving them) some structure by moving through the maze."

"The Japanese have a slang word - paku paku - they use to describe the motion of the mouth opening and closing while one eats. This was originally translated to Puck-Puck which later became called Puck-Man and then finally the name settled on Pac Man."

References: Interview with Toru Iwatani

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