UniPac: Unicode-powered Pacman Adventure

Pacman for the terminal.

Has most of the game elements from the original game:

• Ghosts go through 'shuffle' and 'chase' (💡) periods where they ignore/target pacman.
• Ghosts flee pacman when frightened.
• Ghosts slow down in the tunnel and when freightened.
• When eaten, ghost eyes trace a path back to the ghost house.
• Two 'fruit' bonuses on every level.
• Cornering.

Mazes:

• Shortened pacman maze (24 rows).
• Regular pacman maze (29 rows).
• 4 Ms Pacman mazes (31 rows).

Pacman is animated with ascii symbols and the ghosts with unicode codepoints (Pinky 👺, Blinky 👹, Inky 👻, Clyde 🎃); Unicode has symbols for most of the fruit bonuses (🍒,🍓,🍑,🍎,🍇,🚀,🔔,🔑), but not for the ghosts themselves.

Controls are on the arrow keys.

% cargo run --release

Credits:

• Steven Goodwin's C version of the game.
• Sound assets from Dale Harvey's JS version
• Marquee text by ChatGPT
• The Pac-Man Dossier
• Ms Pac-Man Walkthrough