Pac-Man | Design Icons

I knew I recognised that intro sting. Double Fine Adventure is awesome, and its soundtrack is so good!

Whatever happened to design icons?

It's got something for everyone; action and gameplay for men, cute graphics and silly cutscenes for women, simple design and understandable gameplay for casual players, complex and intricate ai for advanced players, easy to grasp and understand for beginners, challenging and difficult for experts, and overall with its simplistic nature it leaves almost everything up to the imagination. It's really amazing, isn't it?

"Creating a fun game is not about satisfying yourself as a developer." – I feel like this a lesson that amateur designers really need to learn. So many people's first attempts at making games, especially puzzles, is more about proving how smart they are and how clever their puzzles are. But good designers make the players feel smart and clever. That's the real challenge–making something just hard enough that it feels good to solve while still giving players enough tools to solve it.

Ms. PAC MAN > PAC MAN

This series lasted all of one month. Bit of a shame, too; I was really looking forward to episodes in the 1985-2005 region, because those games really changed everything

Dustforce!

Toru Iwatani, I salute you. 🙂

what's the music playing at 1:17???

Did you know that the original name for Pac-Man was Puck-Man? You'd think it was because he looks like a hockey puck but it actually comes from the Japanese phrase 'Paku-Paku,' which means to flap one's mouth open and closed. They changed it because they thought Puck-Man would be too easy to vandalize, you know, like people could just scratch off the P and turn it into an F or whatever.

Please more Design Icons PLEASE?

Hello is there any chance this series will continue? It’s very informative and very well done, and it’s been a while. Any one else with me?

What happened to this series?

Did you know that the original name for Pac-Man was Puck-Man? You'd think it was because he looks like a hockey puck but it actually comes from the Japanese phrase 'Paku-Paku,' which means to flap one's mouth open and closed. They changed it because they thought Puck-Man would be too easy to vandalize, you know, like people could just scratch off the P and turn it into an F or whatever.

7:10 Pac Man is a human being

Loving this series (and all your videos), particularly the reference to one of my own games (Crash Bandicoot) — even if you did use footage from the reboot rather than the (better, no bias here :-)) original!

This tweet is about Pac-Man's sound effect design.
In this video, Japanese game composer, Yuzo Koshiro, is playing Pac-Man's sound, with KORG's new synthesizer.
https://twitter.com/yuzokoshiro/status/1226558362596204544

You're visualization of the AI was a little off. There's a glitch that shifts the target to the left when pacman looks up. Doesn't normally matter, but there is a way to be untouchable because of it.

The thing I find most interesting about the ghost AI in Pac-Man is how necessary it is from a game design perspective for the game. On the surface, it feels like a flourish, something a brilliant game designer did just because they could. But if you dig a bit deeper, you find that it really couldn't have gone another way. It wasn't the difference between a good game and a great game; it was the difference between a great game and a broken one.

If you ever tried to code Pac-Man yourself, you will quickly find that if you give all the ghosts the same (relatively simple) AI… they eventually all bunch up together. This turns multiple ghosts into just one or two ghosts. So why bother having so many of them?

Chase mode, from this perspective, is not only a way to give the player a break; it's also a way to split the ghosts up. Giving each ghost different AI serves a similar purpose.

Design like this is necessary for making the game actually work.