Ruckage Presents - Ruck-Man

Ruck-Man

Ruck-Man is my homage to the classic game Pac-Man. It was my entry for th GBAX 2007 coding competition and the biggest project I have undertaken to date. Despite not winning a prize in the competition it has proved to be extremely popular and is one of the games built into the GP2X F200.


The title screen.		Meet the cast.

Game play for the most part adheres to that of the original, in fact there is a classic mode that most closely matches the game play of the original. The game features 4 game modes in total, (standard, fruit frenzy, panic and classic) 20 mazes, 10 graphic themes, new power-ups and some amazing music created by Pat Ferguson.

A trail of pellets appearing in panic mode.

Game Modes

Standard
Help Ruck-Man collect all the pellets in the maze to progress to the next level. To help you on your quest there are 5 all new power-ups. Use them wisely.

Fruit Frenzy
In Fruit Frenzy the aim is eat all the fruit and other items wandering around the maze. Each new level has increasing numbers of items you have to catch and introduces new higher scoring items.

Panic
This mode takes place on a single maze of your choice. The game starts with one trail of 25 pellets, collect all these and another trail appears. Each time you clear a trail the game speeds up a little bit and gets more difficult. A power pellet will appear in every other trail to help you a little.
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Classic
The classic game you know and love. Basically the same as standard mode but without any of the new power-ups.


Some of the not so fruity items in the later levels of 'fruit frenzy' mode.		The ghosts are about to be squashed by falling bags of money.

Power-Ups

In Standard, Fruit frenzy and Panic mode there are some special power-ups available for Ruck-Man to use. A power-up appears at the start of every level or when Ruck-Man loses a life. The Power-up moves around the maze randomly changing at regular intervals. The 5 power-ups available are:

(X) - Rainbow pellets
Temporarily transforms all pellets into rainbow pellets which are worth 5X the points.
(Not available in Fruit Frenzy mode)

(B) - Tik-Tok the bomb
Summons Tik-Tok to help. Tik-Tok wanders around the maze and detonates when he touches an active ghost. The explosion destroys any ghosts nearby. You earn 500 pts for each ghost caught in the explosion.

(C) - Chomp
Summons Chomp. Chomp wanders around the maze eating pellets and fruit and scaring any ghost he comes across. Scared ghosts can be eaten as if Ruck-Man had eaten a power Pill.

(D) - Money drop
Causes a bag of gold to fall on any active ghosts. You receive 200 pts for each ghost squashed plus another 500 pts if you get the bag of gold left behind.

(I) - Ice
Temporarily freezes all active ghosts in a block of ice. Frozen ghosts can be shattered to earn 1000 pts.