Thu, Apr 14, 2011 | 10:12 BST
Free-to-play HTML5 Pac-Man is a monster
Australian web game developer Soap Creative, in conjunction with Microsoft and Namco Bandai, has created The World’s Biggest Pac-Man, a web-based, free-to-play update of everyone’s favourite dot-gobbler. With over 1,300 user-created mazes, economic productivity is likely to take a hit today.
Unveiled at Microsoft’s MIX11 developer conference to promote Microsoft’s upcoming Internet Explorer 9, the game will run in any HTML5-enabled browser – we’ve just had it running perfectly in Firefox 3.6.
The 1,300 user-created mazes are linked at the edges, meaning you can move seamlessly from one to another. To create a maze you just need to link your Facebook account to the game, or you can ‘play for fun’ without logging in at all.
At the time of writing global stats show that 167,154 mazes have been played and 16,109,848 dots eaten: what a greedy bunch.
Thanks, Gamasutra
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Posted in: Arcade, Microsoft, Namco Bandai, PC, Puzzler
Tags: browser-based games, Firefox, free-to-play, internet explorer 9, Pac-Man, Soap Creative
7 comments
#1
Blerk
14/04/11, 10:19 am
This is really cool, btw. I was playing it for ages yesterday lunchtime.
#2
Alfakyn
14/04/11, 10:21 am
It’s awesome, you can play it for days
#3
Erthazus
14/04/11, 10:52 am
It’s great
i like it.
#4
Lounds
14/04/11, 11:33 am
lunch time it is
#5
mojo
14/04/11, 11:55 am
lol.
nice
#6
sickpuppysoftware
14/04/11, 1:08 pm
Erm “Microsoft’s upcoming Internet Explorer 9″ isn’t upcoming, it’s been out for a little while.
#7
flagg
14/04/11, 4:13 pm
Pretty cool site. Its still really dumb though how these sites get promoted as ‘HTML5′ like its something special…when really things like this are made in javascript anyways which is something we could already do…