As regular readers know, I am very against some techies excluding people. Maybe I make too much of it, but to me this sort of thing smacks of a kind of techno-elitism, perhaps unconscious, which in my view ain't good. I don't think it's necessarily obvious at all how to play Google's Pacman game. Unzip / extract the downloaded file and open "Play GooglePacman.html" to start the game. There's a download of the game for offline play too (via The Next Web). I also tried it on my Android T-Mobile G1 phone, and while you're supposed to be able to move it by swiping the screen (particularly black margins at the right and left of the playing area), I found it rather erratic in terms of responding - sometimes it did, sometimes it didn't!ĭownload. Word is this works on iPhone & iPad too - see this video. So 2 people can sit to the right and left of the keyboard and play at the same time! Be warned, if one gets eaten, both die. To move Mrs Pacman, use the w a s d keys (w=up, a=left, s=down, d=right). There's a two player game option as an " Easter egg" - click "Insert Coin" again to get a second "Mrs Pacman" (and separate scores for 1 up and 2 up). As the Wikipedia article points out, the monsters do move in a set way and if you've the time to spare you can probably work out a pattern of movement to maximise your chances of winning and getting the most points! You can lurk near a flashing pink dot till ghost monsters are near you before eating the pink dot, so you can catch the monsters before they can run away too far. Click it again to unmute.īeating the monsters. X next to it and greyed out means it's been muted. To mute the sounds: click the little speaker icon bottom left.So it's really such a good idea to use the mouse. Whereas with the arrow keys you can tap a key in advance for the next direction you want it to go so control is much better with the cursor keys. But there has to be a clear straight line of movement between the Pacman and where you want it to go (you can't make it go round a corner with one click, you have to click twice!). What they really mean is, click once to the left of the Pacman if you want it to go left, to its right if you want it to go right, etc. Mouse: click "on the maze", Google said.Makes it easier that you don't have to time it precisely to tap the exact moment it reaches the junction! if it's going right and you want it to go up next, you can tap the up arrow while it's still moving right and it'll take the next up, even though it's not reached the junction at the point when you tapped the up key. Tip: you can tap the key for the next direction in advance, e.g.Tip: just tap once the arrow key for the direction you want it to go you don't have to keep holding the key down.(You're supposed to be able to wait a few seconds and it'll start, but I found that a bit erratic.)* To start playing - click "Insert Coin".Your score ratchets up in the numbers top left. More little fruits on the right stack up when you've won games (you start with one for free). There are "back doors" on the left and right, run through those and you'll come out the other side. Eat up all the dots, you get to start a new game (but with no extra lives, just the ones you had left before). For extra points eat (run over) the blinking fruit etc that appears in the middle sometimes. Sometimes the blue monsters flash to warn you that they're going to change back to their original colours, when they can eat you again. Eat a blinking pink dot and the monsters turn blue, and while they're blue they can't eat you but you can eat them instead (and get points for that), and their little eyes fly back to the central box to be reincarnated another time.
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