Game guide
How to play the Pacman Canvas game
Pacman Canvas is Platzh1rsch's HTML5 Canvas recreation of classic maze-chasing gameplay. A level is cleared by eating every white pill while staying away from the ghosts. Four larger power pills temporarily make the ghosts vulnerable.
- Choose a route. Use the arrow keys or W, A, S and D on desktop. On mobile, swipe or use the direction buttons below the game area.
- Clear the maze. Collect the small white pills. The project instructions award 10 points for each regular pill and 50 points for a power pill.
- Use the power-pill window. A blue ghost is worth 100 points, but the effect ends. Keep an exit route ready before the ghosts return to normal.
Pills, power pills and pause controls
The goal of each level is to eat every white pill without being caught. On desktop, press Space or Escape, or click the game area, to pause or resume. On mobile, touch the game area once. The project notes that each ghost uses a different chase pattern, so their positions matter as much as the nearest pill.
About this HTML5 Canvas version
The player and instructions come from Platzh1rsch's Pacman Canvas project. Its repository labels the code CC0 1.0 and identifies the live demo used here. This independent page credits that implementation; names and imagery associated with the original arcade game may have separate rights.