Vapourware Series: PAC BOY 2

EDIT AGAIN: Changed game's name because whadehell.

Okay so against my better judgement I've decided to give this goddam program another try. Thus I've been rummaging over some of my old sad half-done projects, seeing if I can rig 'em up a little bit and, who knows innit, maybe get them finally published alright. Not gonna happen most likely, never happens -- anyway, today I give you

TETRAPACMMATON

PLAY HERE:

pac.netlify.com

A revamp of my old PacBoy (itself a revamp of Namco's Pac-Man) with a hint of colour, plus shooting turrets, giant saws, secret hatches and whatnot.

It's a pretty polished beta, with nearly all features functional. Could use a bigger, more balanced map. Also, grid movement is not as robust as it should, enemies go thru walls sometimes, which pisses me off greatly. TETRAPACMMATRON is aimed primarily for mobile/tablet, but as always with Construct, performance is quite the challenge. As it is now, runs reasonably well on all my rather-crappy devices. Far from optimal, of course. Lags a bit too much at the beginning, which I hope I'll be able to fix with a title screen or something.

Comments appreciated! How's performance for you? What scores you get? Do them damn ghosts cross the walls? Do you think Namco could sue me?

Cheers!

Hey I was wondering what happened to you .... :)

that game looks pretty damn sick... I will give it a whirl tomorrow, absolutely jaded right now.. need to get some shuteye.....

just surprised to see your name pop up, welcome back sir

So we're old schoolers now ?! :)

Wasn't it only a year ago that we were like proper noobs...?

Anyway that Pacman game looks and plays real nice, great job. love the new colors and gameplay mechanics and overall vibe.

yea it sure got quiter around here since the transition to C3 and the new website, but there still some "real" oldschoolers lurking also a lot of new blood with good ideas and enthusiasm.

As for people migrating yea maybe, I think they main draw with other tools is console exports but we now have chowdren project covering that if you game is good enough.

also I think that web served games will dominate the future and may even start to dismantle the big monopolies like sony MS steam etc so construct is in a good position for that. also it will be real interesting to see where web goes now that Microsoft has jumped on chromium

good luck with your APK, exciting stuff! i have absolutely no idea when it comes to the social media and leader-boards stuff Im dreading that when I get there.

im not an expert but the C3 has direct apk exports which appear to be pretty damn decent performance wise (could be worth taking the plunge to C3 just for that if you plan to do them regularly)

anyway later, Im on holiday in 30 minutes. yeaae

Happy Christmas

(ps new years resolution.... will finish my shmup by next Christmas)