TIGSource: Pac-Txt

Pac-Txt

Derek Yu — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 10:21:00 +0000

You awaken in a large complex, slightly disoriented. Glowing dots hover mouth level near you in every direction. Off in the distance you hear the faint howling of what you can only imagine must be some sort of ghost or several ghosts.

Someone’s done and turned Pac-Man into a text adventure game.

(Source: The Random Gnome’s Lair!)

"Pac-Txt" by Announcer

Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:43:34 +0000

TRIPLE COMBO!

C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!

"Pac-Txt" by josh g.

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 13:35:57 +0000

… yay for three people with the same comment being held in moderation limbo so they can repeat each other? =)

"Pac-Txt" by black rabbit

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:43:08 +0000

A much, much better class of arcade-as-text can be found in the IF Arcade collection from 2001:

http://www.wurb.com/if/series/39

…featuring some of the best IF writers alive (Cadre, Plotkin, Short). They’re all really short, but nearly all are interesting and/or fun; my favorite is Centipede.

"Pac-Txt" by josh g.

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:57:57 +0000

A noted interactive fiction author already did this a while ago in a much wackier and more interesting way. You can check it out here:

http://www.wurb.com/if/game/1159

It’s a z-code game, ie. the same format that old Infocom games use, which just means you have to run it in an interpreter. Gargoyle is a pretty good ‘terp, found at: http://ccxvii.net/gargoyle

"Pac-Txt" by elfpvke

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 21:02:17 +0000

Eh, text pac-man has already been done - and more creatively….

http://www.wurb.com/if/game/1159

yay for junkie pac man..

"Pac-Txt" by FireSword

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 20:14:36 +0000

Alt f4

lol

"Pac-Txt" by Advenith

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:34:26 +0000

It’s funny but stupid. Much like my poor cousin Clem after the accident.

"Pac-Txt" by Gutter

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 14:25:52 +0000

The game was much more envoyable if you use “autolook” and “autonibble” (the ghost at the bottom tells you the cheats if you scroll down)

The author should make the ghost move a little slower though when you have the super pill. They are impossible to catch, and unless you try to corner them (by imagining the map) you just run after them until the coundown stops…

(yes I know, making them move slower in a text adventure game is weird… But not weirder than turn based rogue like with variable player/enemy movement rates per turn)

"Pac-Txt" by Tr00jg

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:44:38 +0000

It starts very promising though…

"Pac-Txt" by Kenzya

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:10:15 +0000

This was pretty lame.. I was hoping this would be more of a text adventure rather than a non-graphical action game. You can definitely translate style and atmosphere in to Pac-Man through text-only gameplay.

"Pac-Txt" by codekitchen

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:08:03 +0000

I… can’t believe I just destroyed 5 minutes of my life to beat that game.

OK, so I cheated like hell. But still.

"Pac-Txt" by robolee

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 12:27:40 +0000

arrghh! I hate these damned games , they dont even tell you what commands you can do and I end up having about a hundred lines of “huh!?” “I don’t understand that” etc.

luckily this one has a help thing

I think its rather boring step one press:f, enter e, enter lo, enter… repeat until hit wall draw it down on paper and get them all, hey presto completed