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| Criteria | Rank | Score* | Raw Score |
| Theme | #4 | 4.472 | 4.472 |
| Controls | #5 | 3.806 | 3.806 |
| Fun | #6 | 3.833 | 3.833 |
| Accessibility | #11 | 3.250 | 3.250 |
| Overall | #13 | 3.643 | 3.643 |
| Audio | #26 | 3.194 | 3.194 |
| Graphics | #28 | 3.528 | 3.528 |
| Originality | #33 | 3.417 | 3.417 |
Ranked from 36 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.
Godot Version
3.3
Wildcards Used
N/A
Source
unsure
Game Description
Play Pac-Man as one of the ghosts, and defeat the yellow hero.
Discord Username
elektito#9207
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Nice game! Pac-Man's AI is fantastic, you did a great job with this, and the fact that it's a reverse of a classic really re-enforced the jam theme. I think I found a small bug where my sprite spawned as invisible except the eyes until I died the next time, not exactly sure what caused it, and not a big deal as it wasn't game breaking, I just thought you might like to know about it. Overall great job!
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah, I've seen that bug once or twice. I just wasn't able to properly reproduce it to see what's causing it.
I may be wrong but I think the bug is caused by a ghost killing pac-man before the player has fully regenerated, overall great submission though!
Well, that's something I can look at. Thanks a lot.
Managed to take a look at the code. Yes, this was it. One again, thanks a bunch!
The ending was unexpected, overall good game
Finally won against that damned yellow circle, lol. But no, it was honestly amazing, loved the reverse concept of pac-man! And that ending, kinda cute, but scary too
Great idea and execution, the visual/audio sounds like the original so no complain here.
My only issue would be the speed, it feel really fast ?
If you keep playing after winning, pacman suicide himself on you if you don’t move.
Yeah, I have to admit that I didn't have time to find a solution for the end-game. If there's only a single dot remaining, he'll probably die trying to get it. I knew there should be a way to not allow tanking the endgame, but I just ran out of time. And the game has obvious balance issues. Thanks for playing, and for the feedback.
Oh my god, the ending cutscene is sooo cuuute! :33
Brilliant take on a classic, well done! Really enjoyed it. ^_^
Thanks! The cutscene is not everything I wanted it to be, but I'm still very proud of it! :)
As you should be, it's awesome! ^_^
Good old pacman I really liked the twist :))
This game is awesome! You should really work more on this!
Thanks for the encouragement! I do have some ideas for expanding it. Mostly the original ideas I had to ditch to make it in time for the jam. I'm gonna see if I can add some of them after the jam.
Original take on the theme! Thanks for the game
This is really clever! Nice job.
wow the guy playing with pacman was better than me
At my first try, I camped over the last big pill when the other three were eaten, so my score was terrible, but the victory unavoidable. The original Blinky never had that idea. XD
Looks like there are some bugs, tho. After one game Pacman always dies at one hit, had to reset the game. And sometimes he dies suddenly for unknown reasons. Also, there was one time that I was eaten and when I went back to life, my character only had the eyes.
Anyway, I really like the ending with Pacman joining the group. XD
Yeah there are definitely bugs I didn't manage to fix. Thanks for playing.
What a cool twist on the original idea, really liked it!
There we go !
This is a very good idea ! I's pretty fun !
I encountered the same problem PhindieGames had, score and lives don't reset if you continue playing after winning ; also, I'm not 100% sure but after Pac man eats a big dot, when my ghosts stop being afraid and find their original sprite again, Pac-man keeps eating them ?
Anyway, great submission ! Congratulations !
I think I've seen some of the bugs you mention in passing. I just couldn't properly reproduce them and I was extremely busy figuring out lots of other things. Still I need to investigate more.
Exactly as it says on the tin, well done! It was fun playing the game this way. I did feel that it was at times hard to take quick turns. My best low score is 270 :)
It looks like continuing after a finished game doesn't work quite right (the score continues and lives don't reset).
Hmm. I thought I'd fixed that but maybe it still happens under some circumstances. I need to investigate. Thanks for playing and leaving feedback.
Awesome idea and execution. Also the animations when loosing and winning were lovely.
In the end you just have to camp some crumbs so pacman can't win, even though there are probably better strategies to get better low scores.
Haha, yeah I had thought of that, just didn't have time to think of a way not to let it happen. Thanks for playing.
And i thought my reversed pacman was an original and bright idea! :P
Game is fast and fun, and graphics and sound are exactly what they are supposed to be. Also i liked the AI a lot (I'll ask you about it later). I cheked it and, if you don't do anything, manages to finish the game by its own.
As creator of another reversed pacman, i must say that i face the same problem: AI is too fast and chaotic that i find it hard to come with a real strategy, and at the end is more about luck to get a better score.
Great work!
Haha. Exactly my thoughts. But the first time I was going through the jam submissions, the random ordering put yours and mine right next to each other, and I was like, say what now?! :)
Anyways, I'm first to admin the game is anything but balanced. There are several parameters I can tweak with, but without a group of playtesters, there's really no point. I just know sometimes you can win, sometimes you can't!
Some notes, color selection of some fonts makes it hard to look at (yellow font color with red blinking outlines), the other ghosts is good at doing their job (good AI implementation) actually, not me. Haha. The scoring system could be changed and show the players score and not the hero. Low score 510 is not changing for me (HTML vers.) Overall, interesting approach to a Pac-Man game and it's fun to play. Good job!
Thanks for playing. The "low score" only changes if you manage to stop pacman at a lower score than the current one. It's a poke at the old school high scores the arcades usually had back in the day. This was all meant for fun, although maybe having a player score made more practical sense! 😁
Very fun! It worked just like I imagined it should.
Very well made! Not much to say, there was very good AI, you always know who's who, and it works!
Thanks for the feedback. I'm glad you it was apparent to you who's who, because I intended to add something to make it especially clear which ghost you're playing, but I ran out of time!
That's a very clever interpretation of the theme. The gameplay was fun and it was really interesting to be on the other side of pacman. Good submission! :)