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Mister Jellyfish Mister · Joined: 11 Mar 2004 Posts: 2200 Location: Sparks, Nevada

As a gift for all, I'm arting up a pac man game for the PC. MiniMan will chomp around different playa screens picking up water, beer, sex, moop, etc. My little dancing avatar is an expample of his possible moves. When it's done I'll post a download link here so everybody can play, compare scores here, etc. Sound fun?

Want to contribute? Post some url links and/or permission to use your:

- 32x32 pixel or smaller sprites or short animations. (some avatars might be great for this)
- Midi music
- small, short .wav sounds
- GameMaker6 files
- Ideas

I'll be sure to give you credit on a game that might travel the world for free.
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Guest · Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2005 11:51 am Post subject:

Sounds like a great idea - Pac Man rocks!

HEADBANDMAN · Joined: 13 Sep 2004 Posts: 63 Location: San Francisco

GREAT. I want to try it

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Joined: 11 Mar 2004 Posts: 2200 Location: Sparks, Nevada

Right on, thanks, Virgin and Headband. Got any tiny sounds or images you want me to pump it with?
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Mister Jellyfish Mister · Joined: 11 Mar 2004 Posts: 2200 Location: Sparks, Nevada

Rather than wait for everything to be perfect, here's a link to download the beta version of the Burning Pac Man game:

http://www.mutantvehicle.com/burning_pac_man.htm

Please offer any advice, comments, sound, or picture files you think would help the advanced levels.

Enjoy!
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Mister Jellyfish Mister · Joined: 11 Mar 2004 Posts: 2200 Location: Sparks, Nevada

*Bump* What's your high score?
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souldancer · Joined: 07 Aug 2004 Posts: 40 Location: Reno, NV

That's so cool. I'm downloading it right now.
Thank you, you rock. What a nice gift!
I'll let you know my high score once I finally get one...be warned though, I'm not too good at pac man. Maybe this is a bit different though.

How fun.
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Mister Jellyfish Mister · Joined: 11 Mar 2004 Posts: 2200 Location: Sparks, Nevada

Thanks, Souldancer. What's going on with you as you get ready for the burn?
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souldancer · Joined: 07 Aug 2004 Posts: 40 Location: Reno, NV

I'm going crazy with anticipation! That's what's going on! Two and a half months...ahhhh, can I make it?? Yeah, I suppose I'll have to. Gotta by lots of gear still, so that will take plenty of time. Plus I've got a pretty busy summer coming up, the next two months should actually fly by.
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ThePikey · Joined: 25 Jan 2005 Posts: 295

I know a guy who was talking about doing a RL version of pacman in Oakland, which could be converted to playa. Set up a 'map' for the maze, monitor everyone's position w. gps, and hand them all walkie talkies to let the 'ghosts' know if a power pellet has been eaten, etc. (Base the ghosts in center camp?) Picture some guy in a giant yellow pacman costume running around with a casette player on continual loop going 'wakkawakkawakkawakka'...

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Joined: 11 Mar 2004 Posts: 2200 Location: Sparks, Nevada

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Joined: 11 Mar 2004 Posts: 2200 Location: Sparks, Nevada

*Bump*
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DVD Burner · Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 9359

Yeah,

whatever happened with this project? I thought it was prommising.

thanks for bumping it mister.

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Ok now I downloaded it. Thanks again.

hey, are there any ideas for the game to become networked?
It would be nice to play with other burners online.
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gyre · Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 4:42 am Post subject:

I can not get this to execute.
I get a message that I'm missing a DLL file.
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Mister Jellyfish Mister · Joined: 11 Mar 2004 Posts: 2200 Location: Sparks, Nevada

Sorry. Works on some computers. May conflict with other programs. You're mileage may vary. Ask your doctor if Burning Pac Man is right for you.
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MikeVDS · Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:35 pm Post subject:

Works great on my work (eh he) computer running windows XP. I got 4000 something today. Still looking for any images or sounds?

gyre · Posted: Fri Dec 29, 2006 9:46 pm Post subject:

I have windows 98se on here.
Does anyone know if that is the problem?
I'll be putting a mac with os 9 into use soon.
It's a playa gift actually.
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Mister Jellyfish Mister · Joined: 11 Mar 2004 Posts: 2200 Location: Sparks, Nevada

The Windows 98 might be the thing. That's a pretty old OS by tech standards but has its advantages. I'm distracted by other project right now so not really collecting new images, but thanks. Look you up if I get inspired again?

I've got to go and learn visual basic so we can get to programming the monkey for the U-Me project. It will be fun to learn something new and only the monkey will laugh at my mistakes.
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MikeVDS · Posted: Sat Dec 30, 2006 2:43 pm Post subject:

I just downloaded it on my windows 98 machine and it works fine. I have the "unofficial service pack" installed on it, which I recommend if you're still running 98 though back-up your files before installing it. It's never given me a problem, but you never know. It fixes a lot of old bugs and fixes the problem of it incorrectly using more ram than 64 megs.

And yeah, if you're looking for new sounds etc I'd be glad to help. It's a cool little game. My g/f just walked in as I was trying it out and laughed her ass off, thinking it was great. I like to make little things like that in my spare time.

K-mom · Joined: 07 Sep 2005 Posts: 371

Works great for me here as well. Thanks for the boredom killer while I wait for my gf to walk in from work!
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The CO · Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 11:02 pm Post subject:

Does it work on mac os X? I'd love to see it...
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Mister Jellyfish Mister · Joined: 11 Mar 2004 Posts: 2200 Location: Sparks, Nevada

Nope. But I'll bet you can find SOMEBODY who owns one of those coveted PC's! 9-)
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sputnik · Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 7235 Location: Detroit

CO, you might be able to use WINE to get it to work on MacOS.

http://darwine.opendarwin.org/

I find that wine makes everything better.

sputnik · Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 7235 Location: Detroit

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05Xk02UG7Yc

Ugly Dougly · Joined: 10 Sep 2003 Posts: 8762 Location: Sunnyvale, CA

If you got one of them used console games for Pac-Man, how would you re-program it? A kewl thing to bring to da playa, ne?
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MikeVDS · Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2007 12:11 pm Post subject:

Depends on how old it is. The real old ones are "coded" with just their logic board. So you could make a new board, or more easily, just install a PC and monitor into it to make it look original.

Mister Jellyfish Mister · Joined: 11 Mar 2004 Posts: 2200 Location: Sparks, Nevada

What Mike said, and install some of the copied software roms from the original game and run on a pc platform like this one:
http://www.mame.net/
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K-mom · Joined: 07 Sep 2005 Posts: 371

Now that is a cool fucking idea. Place it just on the outskirts of your camp and maybe disguise/camouflage the extension cord going back into your camp - that way people would come upon a random arcade game powered mysteriously, not to mention the game is BM specific.
Incidentally, this brings to mind something I wondered about out on the playa this year - a pool table. I read a thread from a couple of years ago from a guy who brought out a table with the felt engaved w/ the Man's logo. Does anyone know if this still makes the trip out there, either in 06 or coming up this year?
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