What is Pacman Game?

Pacman Game is a classic arcade video game that was first released in 1980 by Namco (formerly known as Namco Bandai Games). It was created by Toru Iwatani and is one of the most iconic and influential video games of all time.

Components of the Game

The game contains certain elements as mentioned below:

1. Pacman or Cursor: The Cursor is the main element that is not static in the whole game
2. Walls: Walls are the same as real walls we can’t move surpassing them.
3. Food or Points: These are the elements that need to be collected and added to the main score.
4. Demons: These are the entities that need to be avoided in the game.

Functions which are used in the game are:

• move(): It enables pacman to move in the game. Movement can be up, down, left and right.
• draw(): Prints the game board on the console.
• initialize(): It defines the board at the start of the game. Puts the walls around boundaries and inside the board, places demons at random places and places eatables at the rest of the places.

Making projects is one of the most interesting and fun ways to learn a programming language such as C. In this article, we will learn how to write code for the Pacman game in C.