Pac-Man

Introduction

Project Backgrounds

This project aims to practice building a Pac-Man style game using Python.

• The Essencial: to make Pac-Man eat all available pellets, while avoiding collisions with ghosts chasing him.
• Ghosts: Ghosts always start at their home base. All ghosts move toward random direction.
• Game Levels: All levels will be generated based on the map data from the resource files.

Demo Video Available

• Link

Main Tech-Stacks for the Project

• Python

Installation

Required Packages

Following packages are required to install the game. Please prepare following packages installed on your machine before the installation. Most recent version is recommended. Tkinter and Pygame can be installed using pip.

• Python 3
• Tkinter
• Pygame

Installation

As the product is not using any game framework or engine, the installation process is simple copy and paste.

1. Create a directory for the game.
2. Copy the product into the new directory.

Map Generator

The map generator will read a map file in /resource directory. The file name should be level#.txt or level##.txt, ## refers to the number of the level. The file contains 32×32 characters, each character indicates a block/item in the game field.

Symbol Legends

• _ passage (empty)
• # wall
• $ ghost spawn point
• . pellet
• @ Pac-Man (starting point)
• & free ghost
• % caged ghost

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