Rowan Crawford

Pareidolia (or, Why I Saw Pac-Man Everywhere In 2020) is my game-essay entry for the Critical Distance pandemics and games essay jam which was held in early 2021.

This short Bitsy game shares the connections I felt between Pac-Man and that weird year that was 2020. And please don't come away from the game thinking that I hate Pac-Man; I still have a great fondness for the pucky little game.

As with my other Bitsy games, Pareidolia was another attempt to push the engine as far as I could. This time I delved into modifying the javascript engine code itself. Which is, I suppose, the Bitsy equivalent of wall-hacking but it proved to be a nice way to work.

Pareidolia (or, Why I Saw Pac-Man Everywhere In 2020)

A playful examination of Character Context; a long-neglected aspect of game design and technological development.

Rowan Crawford Browser Games

Pareidolia (or, Why I Saw Pac-Man Everywhere In 2020)

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