To show off the power of HTML 5 and Internet Explorer 9, Microsoft has called in a certain retro gaming star...
Goodness knows how many hours of work were wasted to this yesterday, but it looks like The World's Biggest Pac-Man is becoming a internet gaming phenomenon. Announced yesterday at the Microsoft MIX Developer Conference, this is a fascinating new version of Namco's legendary arcade game, which links together hundreds of fan-made levels. Users need to sign-up via Facebook Connect if they want to construct their own mazes, but anyone can visit the site, click on a map and enjoy some retro-flavoured pill-scoffing fun.
The game was developed by media agency Soap Creative in conjunction with Microsoft and Namco. Although it is designed to showcase Internet Explorer 9, it'll run on any browser that supports HTML 5, the new multimedia-friendly version of the staple web programming language, which is set to compete with Flash as the platform for browser-based gaming. Combining social media, user-generated content and a device-agnostic development platform, this is pretty much a roadmap of where web games are going.
So far, 1350 mazes have been generated, with 16,597,858 Pac-dots eaten and 86,933 lives lost. If you have important things to do in the office today, do not go anywhere near this site.
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