Cool idea. Horrible controls. Reminds me of how frustrating playing pacman on my 2600 was as a kid.

▲ serious_angel 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

    The code was written by Claude, unfortunately, and hence no controls were probably even considered, or no tokens were left.
    I jumped in with the love in mind, too, but when I checked the source repository, and saw the actual source... and then the contributors... it was... I am sorry... it hit hard...

	▲	keyle 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Where did you quote this from?

▲ fphhotchips 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

> Horrible controls.

Interesting! I found them mostly ok, but I was playing with a keyboard. They definitely remind me of the controls of Pacman games I grew up with where (as sibling comment notes), you have to decide where you're going before you get there.

I wonder if tweaking the input buffering or adding some frames after the turn where you 'snap-back' would help, similar to ghost jumps in Mario.

	▲	vunderba 8 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I grew up playing Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man in dimly lit arcade parlors and bowling alleys. The controls in this version are, for lack of a better word, sluggish compared to the tight responsiveness of the originals on a four-way joystick or using a keyboard with MAME. Even when you press an arrow key to "move" the ghost, there’s a noticeable delay, almost like it’s polling for the key-up event instead of the key-down.
	▲	nfw2 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		For me there seems to be latency registering the key press which results in frequently missing turns

▲ omoikane 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I find that you have to decide which direction to turn before the turn.

Once I got that figured out, it was mostly a race to catch pacman along the long straight path at the bottom edge with the ghost's superior speed.

▲ staindk 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Swipe controls on mobile worked well for me.

▲ VectorLock 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah its AI slop without the corner easing. But maybe they can AI it better.

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