Pacman
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Gameplay
| Pacman - The player guides the Pac-Man about the maze mucnhing up the Dots in his path. Four Ghost Monsters - Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde - chase after the Pac-Man trying to capture and deflate him. The Pac-Man can counter attack by eating the big, Power Capsule that enables him to overpower the Monsters for additional score. After all the dots are gobbled up, the screen is cleared, and the Pac-Man continues for another round. Each rack features a special Fruit Target in the maze, which if eaten, earns Bonus Points. Players start with three Pac-Men. An additional Pac-Man is awarded for 10,000 points. (Excerpt from the original Midway Manual) |
Tutorials
Design
Follow the gamelet design process:
- identify game objects, called agents, by locating nouns in the game description
- categorize agents into user controlled agents, agents that move or do other things by themselves (sometimes also called artificial intelligence agents) and completely passive agents acting as props such as the background.
- identify agent interaction by locating verbs in the game description
Skills
This is the Scalable Game Design starter game. You need no background in programming, AgentSheets or other tools.
Computational Thinking Patterns
- Absorb: Dots, Power Capsule, Ghosts, Fruit Target (optional)
- Collision: Ghost collide with Pac-Man to deflate him
- Collaborative Diffusion: Ghost track Pac-Man
- Optional Generate: Create Fruit Target
Standards
Under Construction
ISTE National Educational Technology Standards:
- Creativity and Innovation. design and implementation of a game, create originals works: creating artwork and game levels
- Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, and Decision Making. Plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project: follow game design process.
- Technology Operations and Concepts. understand and use technology systems: use authoring tool, organized project folder; troubleshoot systems and applications: run, test and debug program.
Objectives
- make a simple but complete game
- apply design process to identify objects and interactions
- computational thinking: basic object interaction, stacks, creating object instances, rule based programming, message sending.
Requirements
High School Transition Module Pac-Man Requirements
External links
International
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