One of the user-created mazes in Pac-Man Community.
One of the user-created mazes in Pac-Man Community.
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Genvid’s Pac-Man Community hits 6M players and 17K user-generated mazes

Imagine going to an arcade and putting a quarter in the Pac-Man machine and then playing through 17,000 mazes. That’s what you can do with Genvid Technologies’ Pac-Man Community game on Facebook, where users have created 17,000 of their own mazes in four months.

The game from Genvid and Bandai Namco is officially exiting beta today and it has surpassed six million players during the beta period. It is a social adaptation of the arcade classic game that takes advantage of user-generated content in the form of player-created mazes.

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