Pac-Man looks like it needs serious AI and a physics engine. It needs neither — a maze stored as...
A developer built Pac-Man in ~150 lines of vanilla JavaScript using text-grid maze and greedy-ghost logic, no physics engine. Minimal data-driven architecture solves inherently complex mechanics—critical pattern for teams balancing scope and cognitive load.
Pac-Man looks like it needs serious AI and a physics engine. It needs neither — a maze stored as text, grid movement, and ghosts that just step toward you. About 150 lines of vanilla JavaScript.
1. The maze is a grid of text
const MAZE = ["#####","#...#","#.#.#"]; // # = wall, . = pellet
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The whole game is 5 numbers + 8 lines of physics. Same skeleton powers Breakout, Air Hockey, every paddle game ever made.
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Simon — flash a color sequence, you repeat it, it gets one longer each round. It's a 40-year-old toy...
