Creating Pac-Man clone in Python in 300 lines of code or less— Part 1

Ing. Jan Jileček
ITNEXT
Published in
13 min readDec 21, 2022

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Pac-Man is a classic platform game that is probably known by everyone today. The name “Pac-Man” comes from the Japanese word “paku,” which means opening and closing the mouth. The creator, Toru Iwatani, was inspired by a Japanese story about a creature that protects children from monsters by eating them. In creating the game, he used key words from the story as a springboard, and the verb “eat” became the foundation of everything.

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