Pac-Men will disappear if they move off screen or bounce of solid objects too fast.Īfter reaching specific points in the game, other gestures are unlocked, including the ability to shoot arrows and the ability to create bombs. Only up to three Pac-Men can be present on screen at once the oldest surviving Pac-Man will disappear if a Pac-Man is created while there are three Pac-Men on screen. The size of the hand-drawn Pac-Man will also adjust its speed accordingly (Larger Pac-Men move slower, while smaller ones move faster). The Pac-Men can also be held back or dragged backwards by repeatedly striking the Pac-Man backwards from its current direction. Each Pac-Man can eat ghosts when drawn facing them, and can be guided by drawing walls, with the Pac-Man following the direction of the drawn wall when colliding with it. The player uses the stylus to draw Pac-Men, and guide them through each level.

Upon release, the game received mixed to positive reviews. When the DS was announced, Yoshizawa stated that 'the time was right'. Two years later, the creators pitched the idea as a tablet computer and PDA game, but found the game and the target audience for such hardware did not match. With inspiration from Apple personal digital assistants (PDAs) correcting text with a tiny puff, he found this type of control intuitive and wanted to implement it into a game. Pac-Pix was originally conceived as an arcade game by director Tetsuya Shinoda four years prior. As the first home Pac-Man video game to use motion controls, it involves using the Nintendo DS's touchscreen to draw Pac-Men and guiding them to eat all the ghosts on each page by using various gestures. Pac-Pix ( パックピクス) is a 2005 action video game in the Pac-Man series, developed and published by Namco for the Nintendo DS.

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