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Toru Iwatani, 1986 Pac-Man Designer
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I wrote a post specifically about the ghost behavior almost 9 years ago: https://gameinternals.com/understanding-pac-man-ghost-behavi...
There's not really anything in it that the Pac-Man Dossier doesn't cover, but it's more focused and (hopefully) easier to follow for people just interested in that aspect.
The "Retro Game Mechanics Explained" channel did a good video explanation a few months ago too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ataGotQ7ir8
There's not really anything in it that the Pac-Man Dossier doesn't cover, but it's more focused and (hopefully) easier to follow for people just interested in that aspect.
The "Retro Game Mechanics Explained" channel did a good video explanation a few months ago too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ataGotQ7ir8
Game Maker's Toolkit did a great video this week on Pac-Man
https://youtu.be/S4RHbnBkyh0
There's a lot we take for granted these days which were relatively innovative and unique in Pac-Man, such as the clever AI, and also it's one of the first instances of a video game mascot. Well worth a watch.
https://youtu.be/S4RHbnBkyh0
There's a lot we take for granted these days which were relatively innovative and unique in Pac-Man, such as the clever AI, and also it's one of the first instances of a video game mascot. Well worth a watch.
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The title is misleading. The interview took place in 1986, but the game was released in 1980. [0]
Also, it's Pac-Man, not PacMan.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man
Also, it's Pac-Man, not PacMan.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man
The "1986" comes from the publication year of the book that the interview is from, Programmers at Work. In any case, the title is still accurate enough since Iwatani was producer and director, respectively, for Pac-Land (1984) and Pac-Mania (1987): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toru_Iwatani
The interview took place in 1986? Well, he's definitely pretty spot-on with his prediction of the future of game design.
Let's hyphenate.
TL;DR: "It’s important for you to understand that I’m not a programmer."
When a human being is constantly under attack like this, he becomes discouraged. So we developed the wave-patterned attack–attack then disperse; as time goes by the ghosts regroup and attack again. Gradually the peaks and valleys in the curve of the wave become less pronounced so that the ghosts attack more frequently.
I always found the ghosts algorithms fascinating: the pac man dossier has interesting graphical representations of them
https://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/132330/the_pacman_dos...