Smart Pacman 1.5 Manual

INSTALLATION

No installation is needed. Just unpack the archive and double-click Smart_Pacman.exe file. 


GENERAL IDEA

Another clone of Pacman, but you can play for both sides. Multiplayer (on single keyboard) and a level editor are included. 


GOAL OF THE GAME

Pacman: collect all corns or to stay alive until the round time expires.

Ghosts: move with at least one of your ghosts over pacman before time goes out.

You can play Pacman's campaign, Ghosts' campaign, or challenge AI or human opponent on one of 50 customizable maps.

Also, you may just wish to see two AIs competing. For that you may set both players as AI. That's good for testing your maps.


CONTROLS

All controls are configurable. Press F1 while the in the maze or go the options/controls menu.

You can control ghosts with your mouse in a way that is familiar to real-time-strategy players. Left-click or a drag box selects ghosts, right click orders them to move.

In some cases you may wish to control a single ghost in the same way you move pacman. To do that, just select a SINGLE ghost and move it with arrow keys or WASD keys. You can also select individual ghost with number keys and switch between them with Tab or Backspace key.

Two players can perfectly play on single keyboard with pacman player sitting left and ghosts player right with mouse in his right hand. You can set default keyboard setting for hotseat game.



EDITING LEVELS

The in-game level editor lets you edit maps for custom games. 50 of them were pre-designed, and another 50 are reserved for your experiments.

Editor controls: + and  buttons switch levels, the brush button sets current brush, save button saves the level, reset button loads the level at the state it was last saved. In case your map is illegal (e.g. ghosts can reach pacman at all), it will be automatically corrected.

Levels with long tunnels, few crossing and little space are easy for ghosts and hard for pacman. Levels with much open area and many intersections are easy for pacman.


LEGAL INFO

This game is freeware. You may distribute it and do anything you like with it as long as it remains free. 


Igor Galochkin, 27 Apr 2006
iseeall@narod.ru
http://geocities.com/creationislife/Games.html
