Picture, if you will, if Pac-Man and Crazy Taxi were smooshed together into a game that had the development time equal to the average life span of a fruit fly. Then, picture said game development lost about a third of that development time due to a poor initial game idea and the loss of a day to a holiday!

In Pac-Taxi you drive around what looks like a Pac-Man-ish maze, picking up passengers (for some reason) and delivering them to their destinations, all while avoiding the maze creepers. Wait... Creepers? Not Ghosts? ... NO! Stop asking questions and get those passengers! Your gamer cred is counting on it!

This game was developed for the Godot Wild Jam #80, using the Godot Game Engine v4.4.1.

How to Play

As one of the challenges in the Game Jam was to not use any text... there are no explicit instructions in Pac-Taxi. Am I using this as an excuse not to spend the time adding those instructions in a clever way? I can't say...

What I will say is, here are the instructions...

Car Controls

	Keyboard	Gamepad
Acceleration	W	Right Trigger
Braking	S	Left Trigger
Turn Left	A	L-Stick Left
Turn Right	D	L-Stick Right
Toggle Reverse	Q	Left Bumper
Honk Horn	E	L3 (Press L-Stick)

Finding Passengers

Any available passenger on the map, not currently on screen, will have an orange arrow pointing to them on the edge of the screen. Follow the arrows.

Picking Up Passengers

Bring the car to a complete stop inside the pickup zone, then honk the horn. The passenger should then make their way to the car. The car will automatically pick the passenger up when in range. **NOTE:** If the car starts moving before the passenger is picked up, the car *WILL NOT* pick the passenger up.

You can only pick up a maximum of 3 passengers before some need to be dropped off.

Finding Drop-off Zones

All dropoff zones for passengers already in your car, not already on the screen, will have a blue arror pointing to them on the edge of the screen. Follow the arrows.

Dropping Passengers Off

Bring the car to a stop within the dropoff zone. The passenger will automatically exit and deposit money into your account.

Money

Every passenger will pay you for your service! You get paid when the passenger is dropped off. NOTE: If you can drop off passengers quickly enough (make a drop-off within 30 seconds of the last, let's say) you'll get a money multiplier! We LOVE multiplying money!

Creepers

Colorful square/diamond things that patrol the map. If they see you, they will chase you! If they loose sight of you, they will keep moving to the last place they saw you. If they loose you completely, they return to patrolling.

If you collide with a Creeper... KABOOM! Try not to do this! You only have three lives.

Author

This game was developed by Bryan Miller "ObsidianBlk"

Pac-Taxi is open source and available here on Github!