Friday 26 July 2013

Pac-Man



Pac-Man was released in 1980 in Japan and was developed by Namco. Pac-Man became a social phenomenon that sold a large amount of merchandise and also inspired, among other things. As in Pac-Man released, it invented a new type of genre ad appealing to both genders. Pac-Man popularity was really high back then, that is why people often credit Pac-Man being a landmark in video game history, and is among the most famous arcade games of all the time.

Interactive
Pac-Man is a very simple game. It allows up to 2 players play at the same time. Pac-Man is controlled by the player through a maze, eating dots (which is usually called pac-dots). The player is allowed to control the Pac-Man to 4 different directions, which are right, left, up, and down.

Setting
Pac-Man game uses a maze-like environment which has pac-dots spread all around the maze. In the middle of the maze, there is a little home of the Pac-Man enemies.



Concept
The concept of the game is to eat all of the pac-dots. There are 3 enemies, which are Shadow (Red), Speedy (Pink), Bashful (Turquoise), and Pokey (Orange-Browny). These 3 enemies have the ability to eat the Pac-Man. However, there are 4 special pac-dots (which are bigger in size than usual pac-dots) that can allows Pac-Man to have the ability to eat the enemies, but in temporary times. When Pac-Man ate the special pac-dots, all the enemies turn in to blue like a ghost. Each enemy eaten, Pac-Man will get 200 points. Additionally, each pac-dot and special pac-dot eaten, Pac-Man will get 10 and 50 points sequentially. When all the pac-dots have been eaten, the game will load into the next level.



Goal
The goal of this game is to control the Pac-Man to eat all of the pac-dots with out being eaten by the enemies. 

Challenge
The challenge of the game is to avoid being eaten by the enemies. The player has to make their own strategy so that they are able to eat all of the pac-dots with out being eaten by the enemies.


All images is derived from: Pac-Man — & Wikipedia.com

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