The Pac-Man Brothers

Been giving this a go, and I think it's very good! The dodge-roll ability is an interesting addition that has its own unique benefits and drawbacks, and it's also interesting how some stages are different each time. I had some memories of Jr. Pac-Man in arcades, and this feels the closest to that experience with a few small differences. The lack of a freeze on each eaten ghost takes a bit of getting used to, but it doesn't really ruin the experience (plus I assume this choice was made to not hamper a second player's experience in simultaneous co-op).

My biggest issue involves controls. I have had no luck controlling the game with a keyboard after it starts, regardless of which brother I choose. I've had some luck with a controller, which seems to default to Louie, but it seems the dodge button is the same button that adds credits, so if there's a unique sound to dodging I've yet to hear it. Basically, it would be nice to have some ability to customize controls, if just to test that inputs are being accepted. It's hard to tell as-is what the game thinks is being designated as player controllers or respective inputs, so being able to resolve those mysteries would be very much welcomed.

Apart from that, I'm not really sure that there's much else to address! Of course, I'm still trying to get the hang of things so chances are I haven't seen everything the game has to offer, but from what I've seen this is a very solid experience overall!

porfavor, agregar personalizacion de controles

Honestly so GrEaT & fluid, it could be the next commercial game beyond Jr-Pacman! ʕ✧ᴥ✧ʔ [2P sure is fun!]

Dodge-roll mechanics is genius! (and balanced)... can act as a speed boost, a frenzy/gobbling dash on frightened-ghost, an active way to phase through one or two close ghosts in a corridor... (but near turns or with many ghost surrounding you, it requires some finesse! <3 but it skips pellets to have a downside! ...try to do an epic rebound-roll if a ghost is tailing you close, or a "phasing-chomp" if a frightened-ghost is hiding near a normal one... for a confidence boost! ʕ￫ᴥ￩ʔ) 

Lotery system (write PACMAN when eating ghosts) is quite the find and a nice refreshing twist. It breaks the normal timing of a routine with power-pellets in order to acquire precious lives long term. The 2 fruits random pathing per maze with "slow pellets" opens a lot of strategies. ʕ•ᴥᵕʔ

Nice simple options with "turbo/boost", a 5th ghost, no flashing when powered (thanks the dev for that), side graphics on/off (less distracting), sounds/music balancing, fullscreen, and the choice for the starting level among others.

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The only thing it could use/add is accessibility for casual gaming IMO: 

-An easy-mode (with 25/50% speed decrease for all levels, feeling slow but not sluggish) + no dodge-roll bounce on walls to make it easier to master later (and maybe +30% fright-time each levels, blocked at 1sec [not 0] in the harder levels & x2/x3 longer time in the center-box for the ghostz, to breath better).... for only 50% scoring (or another score-board entirely if problematic to compare ʕᵔᴥᵔ࣢ʔ)

-An option maybe to "pac-boost" only when pushing a button (i recommend z, and if maintained Doge-Roll trigger but the top/some speed is conserved unless z is released later; should be good/simple and interesting?! to learn and master, use at a minimum etc...) to speed up as needed and be dynamic (in that "fancy-turbo" mode, like many versions of pac-man have, "Tengen" for example)

(Side-graphics and fruits in the maze could need a modern/crisp relooking [not nice/polished 2D-3D like the rest], but with the AI trend it should be easy to do! A fan could do it too <3)

But F#@$ing good job on this game, i'm baffled! ʕ♡ᴥ♡ʔ Free indeed, it's no short of amazing! (could get a price tag on Steam at around 1-5$ and show it to some Indie/retro Youtubers for a Pac-plosion maybe... because i only got to know about it by searching every pac-games in itch.io...)

Great game. <3 Would love to be able to play this online with friends. Happy anniversary btw. 

Yo there’s 4 more days till it’s games anniversary!

game is amazing, the only thing I don't like is how the time to eat the ghost gets shorter up until it is non-existent. I wish it stayed at 10 seconds because they basically become useless at 5-x

PAC-MAN:

-Just eat

-thats all

I loved the game, good mechanics, good sprites, and all good... but just 2 small questions or suggestions, can't you add a control editor? and the other, can't you add that the second player can play on the same keyboard? Because I want to play it with a friend, but I don't have a controller or controller..

This game is great!