World's Biggest Pac-Man | |
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Developer(s) | Soap Creative |
Series | Pac-Man |
Platform(s) | Browser |
Release | 13 April 2011 |
Genre(s) | Arcade Game |
Mode(s) | Single-player with multiplayer interaction |
World's Biggest Pac-Man is a browser game created by Australian website designer Soap Creative along with Microsoft and Namco Bandai Games.[1] It is a Pac-Man game which differed from the original by having multiple players play together in a series of user-created, customizable and interlocking mazes. The game was announced at the Microsoft MIX Developer Conference on 13 April 2011.[2][3]
The game was built as a HTML5 project for Microsoft's (then) new Internet Explorer 9, as well as to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man. A week after launching, it had 13,500 user-designed mazes and nearly 300 million dots eaten. Created as a community tribute to the original Pac-Man arcade game, it followed the guidelines that Namco Bandai originally set for Pac-Man. The project was designed to be community-driven and a team of moderators were implemented to keep an eye out for any offensive mazes that might be created.[4]
Although no login is required to play the game, users who wish to create their own mazes or post high-scores have to sign in using Facebook Connect.[5] Although created with Internet Explorer 9 in mind, World's Biggest Pac-Man is playable on any browser supporting HTML5.[6][7]
Around 18 June 2022 the site went down, showing just a blank page and later a database error. The site was back up by 5 July.