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Pacman

Program Description

An application written in java to emulate the classic namco video game pacman. The player controls Pac-Man through a maze, eating pac-dots. When all dots are eaten, Pac-Man is taken to the next stage. Four enemies (Blinky, Pinky, Inky and Clyde) roam the maze, trying to catch Pac-Man. If an enemy touches Pac-Man, a life is lost. When all lives have been lost, the game ends.
This program stores the top scores in a MYSQL database.
It outputs report scores in xml file.

Features

Usage of keyboard or joystick.
As the level progress more ghosts will be generated.
Double buffered images to store in memory
Scores are stored into a MYSQL database.
Usage of cron4j scheduler to generate xml report on scores.
Run in three output modes
Preliminary Network capability
Usage of MVC Design Pattern
Sound Engine

Code Snippet

    private PacmanImg pacmanImages;

    public int viewdx, viewdy, pacmanx, pacmany, reqdx, reqdy;
    public int pacmananimpos = 0;

    public Pacman()
    { setPacmanImages(new PacmanImg());

    }
    
      public void DrawPacMan(Graphics2D g2d) {
        if (viewdx == -1)
            DrawPacManLeft(g2d);
        else if (viewdx == 1)
            DrawPacManRight(g2d);
        else if (viewdy == -1)
            DrawPacManUp(g2d);
        else
            DrawPacManDown(g2d);
    }

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