Pacman

An OOP implementation of Pacman in Excel

This is very much a WIP. Some explaination of the code and architecture can be found here for now.

Right now, until I've got a fully working game, the develop branch is default.

Get Started

You should be able to simply clone and launch the Pacman.xlsm. Sheet1 has a "hardcoded" maze. Eventually, I'd like to teach excel how to draw a maze from scratch. You can start a game by running Client.Prototype(). As of now, the only things that work are:

1. You can move pacman by using the arrow keys
2. Ghosts will navigate themselves around the maze

For now, you can't die, but you also can't eat!

Rubberduck

Its really helpful to have the Rubberduck VBE Add-in installed. You will be able to see a nicer folder structure for the project.

Disclaimers

• I have only ever run this on my machine. I don't know how well things like resolution and game ticking speed will work on your machine.
• It definitely won't work on macOS
• I have experienced some really nasty crashes while trying new things in development. Crashes that completely broke the vbproject.bin. Here are some things that seem to cause crash issues:
  1. Using custom collections with enumerators
  2. Having the MapManager load its own map file. (if the controller does this, it seems to not crash???)