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A jam submission

PactmanView game page

Pactman is Pac-Man reimagined as a first-person horror game for the PS1.
Submitted by Jeremy Whitson (@Jeremy_Whitson) โ€” 1 hour, 25 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Horror#642.5562.800
Story#822.0082.200
Aesthetics#882.7393.000
Enjoyment (Best Game)#892.3732.600
Sound Design#952.3732.600

Ranked from 5 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

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Comments

Submitted (2 edits) (+1)

This is a really neat take on that sorta game and definitely far more terrifying than Pac-Man!

The first time I loaded it up, I have no idea what happened, but my laptop freaked out x3 It sorta fullscreened, but my mouse pointer was stuck in the top left corner, and when I tried to move it from there, it wouldn't stop pinging back. I tried to close the game with task manager, but couldn't navigate to get there. I did manage to close it with alt tabbing in the end though. No idea if it was the game or just my potato laptop being crazy, haha. Either way, it was totally fine when I started it up again :3

I didn't manage to finish because my sense of direction is kinda awful and it got to the point where I couldn't find any more paper/had no idea where I was, haha. The first time I encountered a ghost I almost jumped cos I was too busy looking at the paper on the floor xD 

Definitely spooky! Oh, and I noticed something that I thought was really cool! At least I think it was a feature rather than me imagining it... when there's lightning outside, you get a boost to your vision and can see the whole screen :D Loved that!

Submitted(+1)

I enjoyed this and managed to finish it even though I didn't think I would!  Nice work!

(+1)

I tried this and 17 other entries from the scream jam. Love the idea of Pactman (but don't have the actual patience to try to finish it though), especially the joke about notes being the "pallets" (and not even the energy pallets, just the standard ones) of horror games. xD
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I wasn't expecting first-person Pacman to be scary, but when the ghost come out of nowhere, I jumped pretty hard!

Pros:
- I like the pages as a replacement for the regular pellets
- I like the use of batteries instead of power-up pellets
- The general idea and execution is great!

Cons:
- After playing for a few minutes, the game crashed , saying I was out of memory (And I've got 32 gb of RAM on my PC)
- The window sounds could use some work. The sound for the rain outside sounds almost like someone peeing and it only becomes audible when you're very close
- Hitting 'ESC' closes the game for some reason instead of pausing or bringing up a menu
- It took me a bit to realize what the pages and batteries were supposed to be. Also, the indication for when the battery runs out could use some improvement (Better indication?)

Overall: A fun game! I suck at Pac-man, so I didn't get all the pages in time

Developer

Thanks for the feedback! Glad to know it actually scared someone! I knew I was on to something when it scared me. Definitely some things I would improve given more time. I've been working on fixing the memory leak error and will upload a new build that should fix the error. I just beat the game twice without it crashing in the new build.