Pac-man-javascript

Intro

Pac-Man is a maze arcade game developed and released by Namco in 1980. The original Japanese title of Puck Man was changed to Pac-Man for international releases as a preventative measure against defacement of the arcade machines by changing the P to an F. The objective of the game is for Pac-Man to accumulate pac-dots to score points without getting eaten by the enemies of ghosts.

How to play

Player presses the up, down, left, right arrow keys to move Pac-Man on the grid. Accumulate all pac-dots and power-pellets or kill the ghost to win.

Technologies

I have designed the game using HTML, CSS and Javascript.

Link

https://8deline.github.io/Pac-man-javascript/

A slight twist

In my take on the original Pac-Man game, player can win by either of the following ways:

1. he eats all the pac-dots and power-pellets, or
2. once he eats the ghost when the ghost is blue and scared of Pac-Man

Also, there is only one ghost, instead of 4. The ghost moves at random, instead of going closer to Pac-Man.

Pac-Man is also allowed to enter the ghost's lair

Occassional bugs

1. Pac-Man might not win the moment it touches a blue ghost (requires several nudges)
2. Pac-Man might not die immediately when it touches a non-blue ghost (also requires several nudges)
3. There might be a delay for the ghost to turn blue after Pac-Man eats a power-pellet

Possible improvements

1. Give the ghost eyes and ghost tails
2. Implement a search algorithm for the ghost to move closer to Pac-Man
3. Create more ghosts
4. Create more levels of increasing difficulty
5. Create a story narration with maps which our protagonist can move around and advance through the levels