....and Google celebrates by putting a flash game of pac-man in their logo. Quite nice. I bet world productivity just dropped by over 50%. :D
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....and Google celebrates by putting a flash game of pac-man in their logo. Quite nice. I bet world productivity just dropped by over 50%. :D
Hehe, I was first!!
Not really.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kennedy
Hehe but I put it in GD which definitely gets the most traffic. :D Imagine IT today trying to block their employees from the Google site. Nice. Quite funny.
Since I usually keep a google tab opened. I couldn't see where the bloody sound was coming. It was driving me nuts. Virus! Was my thought.
Really, can't stand insanity no more. The simple life of a farmer on some god forsaken land is becoming too appealing.
Pffth! You're just trying to suck up to Salem ;)!!Quote:
Originally Posted by laserlight
Notice the ad banner is now talking about pac-man since that is sprinkled all over this thread.
I'm actually quite surprised everyone's laughing. (I'm going nuts. It has to be it)
Seriously, my thoughts when I realized where this thing was coming from, and I settled down a bit, went straight to Nick Cave - Stagger Lee. After all the soothing imagery of loading a shotgun on Google's mothaf face, I regained my posture with Procol Harum - The Dead Man's Dream.
Actually I don't think it's Flash. I think it's Javascript.Quote:
....and Google celebrates by putting a flash game of pac-man in their logo
When you right-click on it, no "Adobe Flash" thingy comes up in the context menu.
You might be right (I kind of doubt it tho), since some of the DOM changes on the fly while the game plays. However, I know nothing about actionscript, maybe it can do that, it can definitely call js routines I think. The page is kind of obfuscated.Quote:
Originally Posted by DavidP
I thought pac-man was older than this. I can remember it in arcades, it was kind of outclassed by the time I was 10 or 12 (37 now).
So... how about a stickied google discussion thread as it seems all GD discussions eventually lead to something they do? :/
He's right, it's javascript (probably created via GWT). Right-click, view source.Quote:
Originally Posted by MK27
You mean the actual page source? Yeah, I looked at that, that doesn't mean the js isn't loading something else. It is not all in that source.Quote:
Originally Posted by bithub
But you're right. There's a ton of div's in there created in one of the loaded scripts and a least one of them accounts for the flashing pucks. It isn't flash.
Also, the sprites are pngs.
Christmas 1980, Atari game console, Pacman cartridge, heaven. And did anyone NOT end up chewing the rubber off of their Atari joystick?
It's not flash, I have blocked it here with a plugin, and pac man works fine.
It's flash for the sound, no?
http://www.google.com/logos/js/pacman10-hp.3.js
The rest of the code seems to be javascript.
Yep, I found that out as well, after I posted. I don't get the sound though.
I just assumed it was all Flash but didn't check the right click thingy which obviously shows it is not pure Flash. Plus it loads pretty quick which should have been a dead give away it wasn't flash. :D :D
I think the game has 256 levels complete with the cutscenes, bugs, and AI from the original. Very cool.
Ok. Despite my exasperation at the whole thing, THAT I admit is cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bubba
There is a blog about it on Google where the devs talk about the whole thing. They are leaving it up for 2 days because "...it is too cool to just put up for one day..."
I guess game dev has come a long way since this was essentially created in a few days so it could only be displayed and played for 2 days. I suspect they will get requests to put this on a dedicated site so people can play it later. PAC-MAN has all the makings of a great timeless classic. As soon as people saw it they knew exactly what to do and how to play regardless of their previous exposure to the game and they probably had fun along the way. Now THAT is a great game. I must admit even after having played all the modern 3D games I found myself today trying to beat my own high scores. Very addictive.
Figures. They must have heard I didn't like it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bubba
Seriously though :) I just wished the game didn't start playing alone. That it at forced me to click on the banner to start playing.
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PacMan is indeed a classic. To me it nearly defines not a genre, but the whole video game field. I don't remember my score. I know it was pretty high though (like that of most people that used to frequent arcades back in the 80s). Speaking of which, there's a touching article about the death of arcades here.
To me, consoles are essentially the modern arcade. The modern day 'quarters' are the initial cost you pay for the game. For 50 or 60 bucks you could play a 25 cent arcade for a long time.
And notice how "I'm feeling lucky" turned into "Insert Coin" and if you click that, it becomes a two-player version (Pacman on the arrow keys vs Ms. Pacman on WASD)Quote:
I think the game has 256 levels complete with the cutscenes, bugs, and AI from the original. Very cool.
I too was disappointed that I lost so quickly on my first trip to Google.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mario F.
I'm a hater though because I suck. It knows I suck and I must prove it wrong.
Ok sunshine, enough daydreaming.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mario F.
Get back to your cubicle and work! Until you're ready to retire or drop dead!
There is no simple life! :D
Would be interested to know if that is the original ghost AI. Having been previously addicted, I found them relatively easy to evade (with the exception of the long straights above the "oo", surviving that's down to timing).
According to the blog it is the same AI. Hard to tell since the board is far different than the original. I have noted that the ghosts act strange at times and don't go after you as if they have pre-planned paths as the original game did.
Looks that way to me too.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mario F.
Yeah, the action is all just moving page elements.Quote:
The rest of the code seems to be javascript.
How can you guys read any of that 'view source' stuff? Looks like pure gobbly gook to me. Then again I'm nothing close to a web developer.