Tasty adventurers have invaded your castle in search of treasure. As a humble Mimic, you will need to hide from these powerful main characters. But if you manage to catch a would-be looter unawares, lunch is served!

Controls:

Arrow keys / WASDMove along the corridors (like PacMan)
X / E  Hide (Pretend to be a chest)
Z / SPACEChomp (Eat stuff)
ESCPause


How to Play:
- Hide from the Hero, who wanders around looking for treasure and monsters to slay

- You are the Mimic - eat treasure (Z/SPACE), and hide (X/E) to lure heroes

- When the Hero kneels down to grab some treasure, eat them! (Z/SPACE)

- The Hero is only vulnerable while trying to pick up treasure!

- Eat enough heroes to fill your hunger bar to advance to the next level

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Submission for IGC Collab Jam 2025

Jam Theme interpretation:
What if pacman was a stealth game?
And what if you, err, weren't pacman, but one of the ghosts, kinda?
Boom. PacMimic.
You're DEFINITELY not the main character in this one, the guys with the shiny armor are, obviously.

Credits:

Jerrylikesgreen - Programming
Lucifern - Music, Sound effects
Nuno Das Neves - Programming, Art, Animation
puddinheadjohn - Art
RustTea - Ideation
(Team size: 5)

Our team members found each other via the jam community forum and started ideating and experimenting. After a while we settled on the 'PacMimic' idea.

RustTea and Jerry facilitated a lot of the early ideation and brainstorming. The whole team contributed to the design and setting which helped inform puddinheadjohn and Lucifern's work on the art and music. I created a GDD to get us all on the same page with the design and scope of the game. 

Jerry and I (Nuno) chatted frequently in Discord while starting to build the game early on. We used Trello to organize the programming tasks. puddinheadjohn created the initial tileset and character designs.

Toward the end, I completed the art and animations and worked with Lucifern to get the music and sound effects they created into the game.

We navigated challenges around time zones, conflicting schedules and illnesses etc. This was a great learning experience!

Updated 1 hour ago
Published 1 day ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5, Windows
AuthorsNuno Das Neves, Jerrylikesgreen, Lucifern
GenreAction
Made withGodot
TagsArcade, Stealth

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pacmimic.exe 93 MB

Comments

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Cool game! I love the concept, I think it could use more polish regarding the gameplay. Art and audio are great.

Hey, thanks for the comment - did you find it hard to figure out what to do, or did the controls just feel bad or unintuitive, or something else?

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I had trouble with controls and gameplay firs and was starting to get frustrated but once I saw you describe it as PacMan with stealth everything clicked. Its a fun game you made. Would love to play a more polished version of it.

Thanks for the comment, glad you were able to figure it out and have some fun! :)

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I couldnt figure out what I was supposed to do but I like the sound effects and the menu music is medival peasant club vibes. I would cringe dance to it. 
Originally wasnt going to leave a comment due to my lack of progress but really wanted to commplement the pixel art and tilesets and the sound design and music and so on. Good Job ^^

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Oh no! I'm sorry it was confusing, it seems to be a common thread among some players.

I added some gifs illustrating how to play, hopefully it's more clear now.

Thanks for the kind comment :)