Learn How To Make A Pacman Game In Go

Create your own project, download the provided zip, and follow along by using git checkout for each video version and git diff to compare changes.

Structure your pacman game in go by creating a dedicated package, a game structure with a constructor and update function, and a single scene flow.

Explore pacman resources in Go by using the pacmanresources package, which stores wall images as byte slices and exposes an images array, avoiding path dependencies.

Learn to add dots and big dots to a Pac-Man stage in Go by implementing dot manager and big dot manager, loading images, and rendering animated dots on the stage.

Add the Pacman player character by creating a Go player struct with eight images loaded from pacmanresources and rendering the current image on the game scene.

Add a text section to the Go pacman game by implementing a text manager, using fonts from pacmanresources, and rendering score and lives with positioned text in the update loop.

Move Pacman in Go by handling keyboard input to drive movement while respecting walls. The lesson replaces fixed screen constants with dynamic sizing and wires inputs into the update flow.

Move the ghosts to track pacman by looping through them, finding a new direction when they stop, and avoiding backtracking to the previous position while using speed and vision.

Implement Pacman fruit collision handling to award 100 points and display the 100 image, while managing animated point indicators with coordinates and max counts.

Handle collision between Pac-Man and big dots, making ghosts vulnerable for seven seconds and awarding 50 points. Remove the big dot from the matrix and update the element list.

Learn to detect collisions between Pacman and ghosts in Go using a collision manager, the absolute difference of positions, and a collision callback to handle when ghosts are vulnerable.

Trigger the eat fruit sound in a Go Pacman game by using a collision callback to run the play eat fruit function when Pacman collides with a fruit.

Explore synchronizing the whale sound with gust vulnerability in a pacman game in go, ensuring the siren sound plays only when the whale player is not playing for seven-second timing.

Learn to implement the entrance animation for a Pacman game in Go, pairing sound with text animation at start and restart.

Master the game over flow in a Go Pacman game: display a game over image with alpha animation after Pacman ghost collisions, manage lives, and trigger the end condition.