The Pac-Man Dossier
[What design and AI lessons can we learn from Namco s seminal Pac-Man? From history through behavior, Gamasutra presents a comprehensive Jamey Pittman-authored guide to the classic game.]
In
1999, Billy Mitchell of Hollywood, Florida became the first person
to obtain a perfect score of 3,333,360 at
Pac-Man, eating
every possible dot, energizer, ghost, and bonus on every level
without losing a single life in the process.
But perhaps what is
most amazing is the fact he can play without using any memorized
routines widely known as patterns .
Instead, he
relies on his familiarity with how each ghost behaves as it moves
Emeric Thoa s Blog
Emeric Thoa is Co-funder and Creative Director at The Game Bakers. After a career in AAA, he started his own studio with his partner Audrey Leprince and made four original IPs on Console, PC and mobile: Squids, Combo Crew, Furi, Haven.
Posted by Emeric Thoa on Thu, 11 Feb 2021 10:40:00 EST in Design In this article, Haven s creative director Emeric Thoa talks about the representation of love and sexuality in RPGs and how he wanted to make a game about intimacy and a relatable representation of love.
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HAMSTER Co. (Head Office: Tokyo-to, Setagaya ku ; CEO: Satoshi HAMADA; referred to below as “HAMSTER”) would like to announce that from today February 11th, 2021, THUNDER CROSS, by Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd., will be added for Nintendo Switch™ and PlayStation®4 as new content, available digitally for Arcade Archives, the downloadable content series by HAMSTER.
About Arcade Archives THUNDER CROSS
Take control of the BLUE THUNDER M-45 and fight against the Mechanikon hordes.
Multiple versions of the game are included, such as the OLD Japanese Version and the NEW Japanese Version , which have different difficulty levels, as well as the European Version, and the rearranged North American Version .