pacman-canvas

About

Pac-Man is a 1980 maze game developed and published by Namco for arcades, in which the player eats every dot in a maze while avoiding four ghosts. pacman-canvas is an HTML5 remake of Pac-Man that can be played online, with scatter and chase ghost modes, pathfinding for Blinky, online highscores and touch swipe controls. The author has moved development to a TypeScript/React successor and will most likely not update this repository again. Its last listed version is 1.0.6, from August 2022.

How it differs from the original

It is currently limited to 10 levels and uses sound effects taken from free sound-effect sites. The wall color changes to show whether the ghosts are in scatter or chase mode.

Getting started

Play it on the author's website, or run it locally with npm start (npm run start:dev also shows console logs). The M key mutes the sound, and on touch devices you control it with swipe gestures.

History

The version history goes back to 2013 and includes offline play through ApplicationCache, several changes to stop cheaters from submitting fake highscores, and an Express server added in version 1.0.0 in 2020.

Media

Licensing & legal

• Marked with CC0 1.0 Universal.