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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
game-dev

Research direction

Start by reviewing the repository structure and existing game architecture, then use the Pacman requirements in this issue as the checklist. Done means the map, movement, ghosts, power-ups, scoring, win flow, and visual movement behavior described here are implemented and working together.

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Description

game
  • The game area has a specific size. Going through one side of the area makes the player appear on the
    opposite side. All cells that are not walls may be walked through and contain “pacgums”.
  • In the middle of the map is a small 5-cell-wide and 4-cell-high area that contains ghosts.
  • Ghosts can get out of their box 10 seconds after the game starts.
  • Pacman starts the game right under the ghosts.
  • Some special, larger “pacgums” let Pacman eat ghosts. This effect lasts 10 seconds. During this period,
    ghosts become blue and flee Pacman instead of hunting him. Their movement speed is slower during
    this time. There are only 4 “pacgums” of this kind on the map.
  • When Pacman eats a ghost, only its eyes remain. These eyes quickly go back to the ghost box, where
    the ghost is healed after a short period of time.
  • The player wins when Pacman eats all the “pacgums”. A new map is loaded after that, or the current
    one is reloaded and movement is accelerated.
  • On screen, Pacman and ghosts must not move cell by cell, but sm
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C++
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Getting set up

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

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