Pac-Man
Pac-Man, originally titled Puck Man in Japan, is a 1980 maze video game developed and published by Namco for arcades. It was released in Japan on May 22, 1980 and by Midway Manufacturing in North America in October 1980. The player controls Pac-Man, who must eat all the dots inside an enclosed maze while avoiding four colored ghosts. Eating large flashing dots called "Power Pellets" causes the ghosts to temporarily turn blue and vulnerable, allowing Pac-Man to eat the ghosts for bonus points.
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A Pac-Man-inspired game built for the Minetest (Luanti) voxel engine, in its very first version, for Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
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Updated4 years ago
LicenseGPL-3.0
Release2021
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A Pac-Man/Snake-inspired terminal game written in Bash, rendered in ASCII, where you dodge a ghost while collecting food for points.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
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Updated2 years ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2024
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A Pac-Man clone built as a tutorial example for the EnTT entity-component-system framework, using SDL2 and CMake.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
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Updated2 years ago
LicenseMIT
Release2018
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Ghostly is a Pac-Man-inspired multiplayer AI programming game where bots control ghosts, originating from the aicompo-tg17 competition.
Platforms:Windows
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Updated5 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2017
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A recreation of Google's 2010 Pac-Man 30th-anniversary homepage doodle, a framework-free browser game with synthesized Web Audio API sound.
Platforms:Web
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Updated7 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2010
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A dot-eating maze game made for learning programming, playable in-browser via the Pyxel Web Launcher, with one stage and no extra lives.
Platforms:Web
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Updated6 months ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2024
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A Pac-Man-inspired game from Stabyourself built on the LÖVE 0.7.2 framework.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars24
Updated7 years ago
LicenseWTFPL
Release2016
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A from-scratch open-source rewrite of Edromel Studio's game Greedy XP, built on SDL and OpenGL.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
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Updated3 years ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2014
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A terminal Pac-Man clone in Go that uses emojis, built as a step-by-step tutorial for learning the language.
Platforms:WindowsLinuxOSX
Stars1,219
Updated10 months ago
LicenseMIT
Release2018
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A CircuitPython Pac-Man clone for the Seeed Wio Terminal and Adafruit Fruit Jam, with arcade-style ghost AI.
Platforms:Arduino
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Updated8 months ago
LicenseMIT
Release2025
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A Pac-Man game that runs inside Emacs, installable from MELPA, with its own CC-BY sprites.
Platforms:None
Stars123
Updated4 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2015
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A browser Pac-Man game by passer-by.com with 12 levels, power pellets and ghosts that path-find to the player.
Platforms:Web
Stars1,643
Updated4 months ago
LicenseMIT
Release2015
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A mostly playable Pac-Man spin-off with missiles and bombs, maintained for Linux and the GCW Zero/RG-350 handhelds.
Platforms:Linux
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Updated3 years ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2023
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An HTML5 Pac-Man remake playable in the browser, with scatter/chase ghost modes and online highscores.
Platforms:Web
Stars352
Updated7 months ago
LicenseCC0-1.0
Release2012
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An ASCII-art Pac-Man for the terminal with 9 premade levels and support for custom level files.
Platforms:Linux
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Updated4 years ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2015
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A Pac-Man clone written in Rust and built with Cargo.
Platforms:None
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Updated2 months ago
LicenseMIT
Release2022
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A C++ and SDL clone of the Pac-Man arcade game for Linux, licensed under GPLv2+.
Platforms:Linux
Stars19
Updated15 years ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2008
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A minimal-dependency Pac-Man clone in C99 for Windows, macOS, Linux and the browser.
Platforms:WebWindowsLinux
Stars593
Updated2 months ago
LicenseMIT
Release2020
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An open-source programming language whose example programs include recreations of classic games like Pac-Man and Tetris.
Platforms:Windows
Stars461
Updated12 days ago
LicenseGPL-2.0
Release2020
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A Java Pac-Man clone by Michael Fogleman built with the SWT graphics toolkit.
Platforms:Windows
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Updated6 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2016
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A keyboard-controlled Pac-Man clone for X11 with several original mazes not found in the arcade game.
Platforms:Linux
Stars5
Updated7 years ago
LicenseUnknown
Release2018