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patriotvoice Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 11:32 PM
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Pacmanhattan
Pac-Manhattan is a large-scale urban game that utilizes the New York City grid to recreate the 1980's video game sensation Pac-Man. This analog version of Pac-man is being developed in NYU's Interactive Telecommunications graduate program, in order to explore what happens when games are removed from their "little world" of tabletops, televisions and computers and placed in the larger "real world" of street corners, and cities.

A player dressed as Pac-man will run around the Washington square park area of Manhattan while attempting to collect all of the virtual "dots" that run the length of the streets. Four players dressed as the ghosts Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde will attempt to catch Pac-man before all of the dots are collected.

http://pacmanhattan.com/
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mouse7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-06-04 11:37 PM
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1. Somebody got WAY too much grant money last semester. n/t
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patrick g Donating Member (130 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-04 10:23 AM
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2. here's my .02
i came across this site last week. tooooooo much time on their hands. would be kind of fun though, wouldn't it? :crazy:
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-04 10:57 AM
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3. Not enough time indeed...
The font they used would have looked better without the anti-aliasing...

This might have been more popular in 1980, back when Pac-Man was popular.

But it's good exercise though. :eyes:

The dude playing the role of Pacman is cute. I can think of better ways for him to spend his time. :evilgrin: Of course, when the ghosts eat him... no, I don't think I'm going to go there right now... :evilgrin:
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chenGOD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-09-04 11:12 AM
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4. Very cool.
The technology behind this is pretty cool indeed.

and much better (physically speaking) for gamers..:)
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