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Pac-Man

PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 7:14 pm
by martinsustek
Here is my art concept for Pac-Man game.

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The original game map does not fit whole in the screen, so there are two possibilities - use scrolling (but you will not see an entire game and ghosts all the time) or create a smaller map. Also game could be oriented vertically.

Re: Pac-Man

PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 7:35 pm
by erico
Looks great! I think the vertical solution+more optimized gfx might just fit greatly!
Keep it up!

Re: Pac-Man

PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 7:57 pm
by rodot
I agree, looks great. I think vertical scrolling should be okay. You could also add several different maps (why not a really large one), and multiplayer \o/
And then you could drop bombs to kill enemies and breaks walls... just kidding.

Re: Pac-Man

PostPosted: Tue Apr 15, 2014 11:05 pm
by Skyrunner65
Go with Scrolling.
Also, two ways to implement Multiplayer:

1. 2-4 players, bigger maps, 2-4 pacmans.
2. 2-4 players, 1-2 pac-man, 1-3 ghosts.

In addition, you might get sued for calling it "Pac-man". How about "Cherry Picker"?
Just throwing out random thoughts.

Re: Pac-Man

PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2014 12:57 am
by 8-Bit TopHat
I like it, you should call it "Arcade-Dash"(Random Idea) Or something.

Re: Pac-Man

PostPosted: Wed Apr 16, 2014 11:37 pm
by DaCoTa
I've taken inspiration from the Atari 2600 version of pacman:
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There are some other field configurations which can work as well.

rodot wrote:And then you could drop bombs to kill enemies and breaks walls... just kidding.

Bomberman, anyone?

Re: Pac-Man

PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 12:14 am
by erico
Pac-manĀ“s maze is quite tough to fit into a single screen, well done!

I here have a half-way test to see if it fits vertically.
I still prefer the scroll+bombs+multiplayer idea though...

Re: Pac-Man

PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 6:08 am
by rodot
erico wrote:I still prefer the scroll+bombs+multiplayer idea though...

I meant bomberman, but that's a different game... or we could mix it with pacman : you eat ghosts while you have to bomb the other human players in a large scrolling map >_<

Re: Pac-Man

PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 7:48 am
by ripper121
let us make 2 games and then everybody can mix like they want to.

Re: Pac-Man

PostPosted: Thu Apr 17, 2014 10:13 am
by martinsustek
Nice work DaCoTa, you used 3x3 pacman size, I planned 5x5, so you fitted bigger maze. But it will be hard to animate pacman/ghosts and ill ghosts.
Erico's image looks promising I wonder how will fully gray screen look like.
I would prefer not to use scrolling, as I want player to be able to see all ghosts at a time as it was on original PacMan.
Multiplayer Bomberman is also great game.