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Pac-Man

Maze, Arcade 2016 Single player Moderate

Four ghosts that hunt together through twelve mazes

A blue-walled maze filled with pellet dots, four ghosts in red, pink, orange and cyan around the middle of the maze, and a yellow Pac-Man in the lower left corridor beside the score, level and spare-life counter
Play Pac-Man

Opens the play page, where the game runs in a frame on this page.

Controls

Move
Arrow keys
Pause or resume
Space
Start a run, restart after game over
EnterSpace

Details

The game

Released
2016
Players
Single player
Difficulty
Moderate

How it runs

Play time
20-40 min to clear all 12 levels
Audio
Silent
Tech
Canvas 2D

Source

Upstream
https://github.com/mumuy/pacman Pinned at 8a96194f7c
Licence
MIT License public/games-runtime/pacman/LICENSE (MIT) Assets: The bundled bitmap font static/font/PressStart2P.ttf is Press Start 2P by Cody "CodeMan38" Boisclair, SIL Open Font License 1.1. The repository ships no licence file for it, so the grant is quoted from the font file itself, whose name table carries the full OFL 1.1 text and the licence URL; it is vendored as LICENSE.PressStart2P.txt. All other artwork is generated by the MIT-licensed game code on the canvas, and there is no audio at all. MIT covers the author's code and the 64x64 favicon.png he committed with it. "Pac-Man" and its character designs are trademarks of Bandai Namco Entertainment; this is an independent reimplementation by Haole Zheng, not a Bandai Namco product, and it ships here non-commercially with his credit, which the game itself draws on the title screen.

About Pac-Man

A canvas reconstruction of the arcade maze chase, written by Haole Zheng in 2016 as his study of HTML5 game engines. Twelve mazes of pellets, four ghosts that pathfind around each other to cut you off, and a power pellet that turns the hunt around.

Provenance and licence

Made by Haole Zheng (mumuy), first released in 2016. Source is the author's own repository at https://github.com/mumuy/pacman, vendored here from commit 8a96194f7c.

Released under the MIT License (MIT). Art, audio and other assets: The bundled bitmap font static/font/PressStart2P.ttf is Press Start 2P by Cody "CodeMan38" Boisclair, SIL Open Font License 1.1. The repository ships no licence file for it, so the grant is quoted from the font file itself, whose name table carries the full OFL 1.1 text and the licence URL; it is vendored as LICENSE.PressStart2P.txt. All other artwork is generated by the MIT-licensed game code on the canvas, and there is no audio at all.. MIT covers the author's code and the 64x64 favicon.png he committed with it. "Pac-Man" and its character designs are trademarks of Bandai Namco Entertainment; this is an independent reimplementation by Haole Zheng, not a Bandai Namco product, and it ships here non-commercially with his credit, which the game itself draws on the title screen.

The copy served here is the upstream source unmodified except for the packaging needed to run it from a static folder. Every game's licence, commit and any recorded change is listed on the credits page.

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