Work№ 0042023Experiment

MR Pac-Man

You are Pac-Man, in mixed reality, on a real basketball court. You run with your feet. The ghosts get faster as you level up.

Reconstructed from the demo and devlog videos. Bill's own account is still to come.

Blue maze walls and yellow pellets laid over a real outdoor basketball court
01

The Curiosity

How big does a maze have to be before running from ghosts counts as exercise?

02

The Build

The maze is anchored to a real court through the headset's passthrough view, walls and pellets scaled so that the corridors are corridors. You are Pac-Man, and you move by moving. The ghosts speed up with every level, which is fair, because so do you.

fig. 1The demo, June 2023.
fig. 2One lap, from the old site.

The build was documented as it went, in five short devlogs on the devlog channel.

03

The Result

A playable demo and the strong suspicion that the ghosts have the easier job.