PACkageMAN by Rainsong

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made by Rainsong for Ludum Dare 53 (JAM)

PacMan meets Delivery Driver: you play as a parcel delivery robot, trying to evade dogs on your route. You send them home if you touch them after grabbing a parcel. They catch you if they touch you when you don't have a parcel.

Use the arrow keys to move. The game starts when you press an arrow key to start moving.

Refresh the page to play again.

(If you're not familiar with the gameplay of PacMan, the victory condition is to clear all the tiles without being caught by the NPCs. You'll see the paving stones become a plain pale grey as you clear them.)

Current version (Sunday afternoon) only has the PacMan game mechanics and some of the art - Delivery Driver mechanics to come (which will be to take the right colour package to the right house).... yea, that part's not getting done inside the jam.

Team: CocoMendes (Art and Music) and Rainsong (Coding)

Ratings

Overall 1174th 2.708⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Fun 1085th 2.76⭐ 27🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1203th 2.25⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Theme 1181th 2.688⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 1058th 2.458⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Audio 705th 2.667⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Humor 921th 2.479⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Mood 1089th 2.771⭐ 26🧑‍⚖️
Given 24🗳️ 27🗨️

Feedback

binroot
01. May 2023 · 19:45 UTC
I could see this game at my local arcade. Congrats on getting it out and playable! Level design is well thought out too!
🎤 Rainsong
02. May 2023 · 00:01 UTC
Thanks so much. :D We hope to complete it in the form we originally thought of, later on after the jam.
Shiiigear
02. May 2023 · 00:30 UTC
Loved the arcade style sound effects! Thanks for your submission!
🎤 Rainsong
02. May 2023 · 02:09 UTC
Thanks so much! :D
Paroxysmal
02. May 2023 · 23:49 UTC
Interesting take on a classic.
Batisdark
03. May 2023 · 00:04 UTC
Real pac-man vibe indeed. Though, unlike ghosts, those doggies weren't so scary - didn't seem to be chasing me at all, when they were red... or maybe there was too much parsels around and they only went red at the end.

But old-school nostalgia did trigger with this one :D
LDJam user 282870
03. May 2023 · 09:14 UTC
You did an excellent job with this game. Thank you for the great play!
LDJam user 276121
03. May 2023 · 11:59 UTC
Perhaps a little basic, but the mechanics you wanted to implement would have been a good addition by the sounds of it
The Wondering Vagabond
03. May 2023 · 21:46 UTC
Cool retro vibes - well done for publishing!
LDJam user 359614
05. May 2023 · 07:55 UTC
ah classic one
YurisCat
06. May 2023 · 14:52 UTC
Good game, feels very classic.

![im win.png](///raw/574/82/z/5b797.png)
DenKa
08. May 2023 · 16:16 UTC
The controls are not very convenient, the game is too primitive, and the delivery theme is not well developed enough... 🐽
Suchista
15. May 2023 · 22:38 UTC
Nice little game, good job :)