Pac-Man

This repo involves producing a Pac-Man style game in Python.

Game Contents

• 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 are generated based on the map data from the resource files.

Languages

• Python
  • Tkinter
  • Pygame

Project Details

Installation

1. Clone the repo with Git
2. Check you installed Python
3. Check you installed Pygame
4. Execute main.py with Python

Map Generator

The map generator will read a map file in /resource folder. 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

Example

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