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MacMan II

Developer	Scet
Genre	Arcade
Platform	Windows
Downloads	437
About: It's everyone's favourite game...Pac-Man!, but in 3D and with a different name.

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NickGeorgia

Posted - 7/4/2005 9:28:05 PM

Great game! Bet it took a while for the polish. The ghosts had a pretty straight forward AI which I thought made the game rather difficult and I hate the controls LOL. Anyway, I thought it was cool.

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Scet GDNet+

Posted - 7/4/2005 10:06:25 PM

Actually it only took about 2 1/2 weeks to finish, but I didn't have the Internet

. The ghost AI I thought was kind of lacking, they get stuck too often. I've developed another 2D pacman game with even better AI so they don't get stuck. You'll be seeing that soon.

What exactly was wrong with the controls?

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NickGeorgia

Posted - 7/4/2005 11:08:21 PM

I guess the controls were just hard to play with from the angle the game was displayed. Probably I just need to get used to it hehe.

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mike74

Posted - 7/6/2005 8:16:59 AM

All things considered, it's pretty good. The fonts are excellent, no doubt. Did you make them yourself?

As for the rest of the graphics, I think there is room for improvement in the graphics on the actual game board. The graphics there look very dithered. It just doesn't look quite right, but it's really no biggie.

Good job on the whole.

By the way, are you thinking of distributing this? It's unfortunate, but you probably can't without having Atari breathing down your neck.

Mike C.
http://www.coolgroups.com/zoomer/

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Scet GDNet+

Posted - 7/6/2005 4:10:15 PM

The font is a normal TTF font(Ocra I think) saved as a high-res bitmap font with some gradient and outlines added with photoshop.

As for the graphics, yes I agree they could be better. However I really can't draw to save my life. I'm a programmer not an artist and this is by far the best looking game I've made.

Also since I've seen Flash pac-mans get sued(or warned), no I won't be distributing it past this site.

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Deception666

Posted - 7/6/2005 10:15:41 PM

Nice looking game in the amount of time it took you.

The only problems I had with the game was the controls and the speed of the game. I just tap the arrow key and my guy is on the other side of the board.

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Tutukun

Posted - 7/22/2005 11:44:44 PM

very nicely done? u mind upload the source code?

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Scet GDNet+

Posted - 7/27/2005 10:24:43 PM

Sorry, no code. My old code is the last thing anyone should learn from. It's so hideous even I don't want to look at it.

Anyway if you need help with pacman game logic, just PM me.

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Mocanu Razvan

Posted - 5/2/2006 9:25:06 AM

Nice achievement for a simple game.
The controls are hard though, and since it's 3d, why not allow camera control ?
A little more attention to details and it would have looked better.

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