So... Java pops up and then nothing happens. I just have javaw.exe sitting in the background doing nothing on my process list. Poot.
EDIT: Wait, now something's happening.
EDIT: Hmm, I know it's early but there's a couple of odd things in there, like how you have these rooms with a square array of pellets in them. Unless actually picking up dots is somehow pleasurable then there's not much thrill in having to mop up arrangements of them. The genius of Pacman is that a lot of the eating of dots is just a consequence of getting from A to B, mopping up the last few bits of them is a bit of a formality towards the end of a round and usually made more interesting by the roaming ghosts doing their best to make it tricky. But these pools of dots have none of that so there's little impetus to pick them up and they become irrelevent, unless you HAVE to pick them up, in which case they will become an annoyance.
For me there needs to be something inherently fun about picking them up, whether it be some kind of multiplier for picking large quantities of them up in a row (which encourages choosing clever paths through the arrays of them which have minimal breaks in them) or whether it's simply through a purely visceral sound or particle effect.
Still, Gauntlet/Pacman is a game which has needed a good revisit for a while, so I'll be interested to see how this pans out.
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