Rowan Crawford

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

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.

Released: 9 February 2021
Developer: Rowan Crawford
Publisher: Rowan Crawford
Engine: Bitsy
Platforms: Web browser
Genres: Indie