Welcome Back to the Maze!

Experience the thrill of the arcade classic, rebuilt from the ground up for maximum responsiveness and speed. Navigate the winding corridors, eat every Pacgum in sight, and outsmart a relentless team of ghosts. Grab a Super Pacgum to turn the tables, rack up massive points, and secure your spot on the Highscore leaderboard!

Features

• Buttery-Smooth Physics. Unlike rigid grid-based clones, this game uses a custom continuous delta-time physics engine. Experience zero input lag, flawless momentum preservation, and instant corner-cutting.
• Smart Ghost AI. They aren't just wandering randomly. Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde use advanced Breadth-First Search (BFS) pathfinding and distinct targeting logic to flank, trap, and hunt you down.
• Dynamic Difficulty. As you clear levels, the game automatically scales up the challenge. Ghost speeds increase, Super Pacgum fright-times decrease, and the pressure mounts.
• Classic Scoring. Hunt down bouncing fruits for massive bonus points, and try to chain ghost-eats together when they are frightened!
• Local Leaderboards. Compete against yourself and your friends with a fully integrated, persistent high-score saving system.

Controls

• Arrow Keys. Move Up, Down, Left, and Right, or if you are a pro, you can move with WASD keys.
• Enter / Space. Select menu options / Save Highscore.
• Q / Escape. Quit the game.
• Escape. Pause / Resume the game (When in game)
• C Key. Toggle Cheat Mode (invincibility, infinite time, skip level, restore lost lives, display cheat status). Look at the in-game Instructions within the Menu for more. 

Developer's Note

This project was built in Python using Pygame as a project part of the 42 curriculum, at 42 Tirana coding school. The project was done as team, by two 42 Cadets: Enrik and Kristjan. This version of Pacman brings a modernized version of the classic arcade game, but this time: in a maze! Get yourself inside and escape with a win from the greedy ghosts!