Super-Pac Man

An implementation of Super-Pac Man game with C++ for Software Development II - Course Project. Super-Pac Man is a spin-off of the classic Pac-Man game released in 1980. Its gameplay mechanics were altered radically from the first two entries into the Pac-Man series -- instead of eating dots, the player is required to eat keys in order to open doors, which open up sections of the maze that contain what in earlier games were known as “fruits”, the basic items that must be cleared. Once all the food is eaten, the player advances to the next level, in which the food is worth more points.

Watch the game demo on YouTube

Build and testing the source code

This code is developed on a Windows machine, but I have since switched to Linux. This code has been compiled in both systems, Windows and Linux, without modifying the code. The problem is that as I'm writing the README, I'm on Linux, So I'll only provide a thorough guide for compiling and testing the source code in Linux.

Prerequisite:

make, C++ compiler, i.e g++, SFML library, Doctest

Installation in Debian system

 $ sudo apt update

Install all the prerequisites:

 $ sudo apt-get install make g++ libsfml-dev doctest-dev 

To verify that you have installed make and g++, run:

 $ make -v 

 $ g++ -v

And to check the list of files installed to your system from package-name

 $ dpkg -L <package-name>

Then check libsfml-dev and doctest-dev using the above command.

Build

Change directory to the source code:

 $ cd game-source-code/

Build the game source code:

 $ make

If your machine has multiple core processors, you can speed the build process by running make in multiple threads. To run make in N threads, use:

 $ make -jN

Run the game executable:

 $ ./game.out

Testing

The code is thoroughly tested using Unit tests to limit regression bugs during development. The tests are in test-source-code directory.

Change the directory to the tests

 $ cd test-source-code/

Build the tests

 $ make

run the tests executable:

 $ ./test.out

Download the game

• Windows, 64-bit binaries.
• Linux, x64-bit binaries.