Controls

-Use arrow keys to move

- X to start game

- P or enter to pause and open menu

- Arrows to navigate the menu and x to select

About the game

Chompy is a Pacman like game in pico-8, actually the first pico game i make. It has some weird ghost movement because i had lots of problems with different ghost speeds. 

You can see the actual ghost target by activating it in the menu, hope that help with gameplay.

Let's talk about the ghost:

- Blinky (red) he always goes straight to the player and if he is close to the player, he gains some speed buff

- Pinky (pink) she always goes to the tiles ahead from the player's direcction, in this case is 2 tiles ahead (16 pixels)

- Inky (blue) he has a complex beheavour. Imagine a line where the extremes are Blinky and Inky, then the middle point is the player, thats how he works. So he teams up with Blinky to catch Chompy by cutting off the path. See better Inky's target in the menu

- Clyde (orange) he goes straight to the player but when he is close enough, he goes back to the bottom left corner

Hope that with this knowledge you can get high scores.

In any way have fun with the game.

Credits

Art, coding and sounds by Mip.pim using pico-8.