The title says it all.
A simple terminal clone of the classic Pacman game written in NASM assembly for x86_64. More specifically, Linux x86_64. Might work on Windows. Maybe. Don't count on it.
I'd also like to apologize to the assembly warriors for my (probably) terrible assembly.
- Win condition
- Main menu
- Enemies
- Lives
- Lose condition
- Powerup & eat enemies
- Fruit 🍒
- Sounds, question mark?
Build the pacman binary with make:
make
Alternatively, you can build and run in a single command:
make run
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| ⇧ | Up |
| ⇩ | Down |
| ⇦ | Left |
| ⇨ | Right |
| p | Pause |
| q | Quit |
Tip: You can queue up to one ⇧⇩⇦⇨ move and Pacman will make that move as soon as it becomes possible.
The level is loaded from the level.dat plain text file.
The file should contain a 44x31 character grid. You can probably decipher what the character represent by comparing the file to the rendered game, but here's a complete reference for convenience:
| Character | Tile |
|---|---|
| a | ╔ [wall] |
| b | ╗ [wall] |
| c | ╚ [wall] |
| d | ╝ [wall] |
| e | ║ [wall] |
| f | ═ [wall] |
| g | ┌ [wall] |
| h | ┐ [wall] |
| i | └ [wall] |
| j | ┘ [wall] |
| k | │ [wall] |
| l | ─ [wall] |
| m | [out of bounds] |
| . | ⋅ [pellet] |
| , | ● [power up] |
| z | [end] |
It's important to include a z at the end. This is required because I was lazy. Just include it, alright?
Any gaps in the top, bottom, left, and right edges of the level will function as a warp tunnel, teleporting Pacman to the other edge of the screen.
Yes yes, I used some C code.
I couldn't figure out what how to control the terminal mode from assembly, so I resorted to good old termios in C. And while I'm adding some C code, I decided to throw in atexit in there as well.
If you know how to enable the terminal's raw mode in assembly without termios, feel free to submit a pull request 🙂.
This project is licensed under the GPL-3.0 license.