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Google Pacman Code

56 pointsby Chiragabout 15 years ago

10 comments

patio11about 15 years ago
If you're smart enough to use Github, you're smart enough to understand that "source code I can easily copy" does <i>not</i> mean "source code I am allowed to use if it is cool enough".
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moron4hireabout 15 years ago
Namco has used the Pacman franchise for a lot, even the original version. It's not even close to the ethical grey-area of abandonware (but not legal-grey, abandonware is still considered copyright violation, it's just not expected to be enforced). The Wikipedia article linked seems to indicate that the original Google version was an authorized clone, but that doesn't make any copies and extensions that you make off of it authorized. There are so many minefields on this, and such games are so easy to make, that you might as well just leave this well enough alone.
Maven911about 15 years ago
And for those of you who just want to play and not bother with the source, Google still hosts the game "legally" at :<p><a href="http://www.google.com/pacman/" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/pacman/</a>
axodabout 15 years ago
Could this be the start of Google getting into casual online gaming? Take on facebook?
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waffenklangabout 15 years ago
ah! They put the blind side in. Neat.
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guestalmost 15 years ago
Check out a Google Pacman Level Editor. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jj3-NGO7xo" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jj3-NGO7xo</a>
snorkelabout 15 years ago
Is it no longer fashionable to put comments in source code, or is that like asking Jackson Pollock to explain each blob of paint?
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muxxaabout 15 years ago
This might be good for giving kids a first taste of programming - a working game and a quick edit cycle.
skantabout 15 years ago
I think Google wouldn't have written all this in native JavaScript. GWT (Google Web Toolkit) might have been used.
apphackerabout 15 years ago
&#62; google.browser.engine.IE = false<p>Tsk, tsk. Browser detection instead of feature detection. ;\