![]() The "cross-functional effort" was coded using a number of languages, including Objective C, Java, and Javascript. From there, the entire Google Maps team got to work. Google worked closely with Namco (owners of the original Pac-Man game), but wouldn't discuss particulars of the deal. "It's not a stringent process that we have in place here," said a spokesperson said. No one involved in the project could offer many specifics about how the project was pitched and approved, however. Tantalo built a demo to present to his team, and a Google spokesperson says "the idea was an easy sell, to say the least." The project was approved for Google's 2015 arsenal of April Fool's pranks. ![]() He and Radcliffe devised the rules that eventually would become Pac-Maps. ![]() When Tantalo rejoined Google in 2012, the new technology within Maps made the Pac-Man mod possible. "(And) place pac-dots, power pellets and bonuses, and enable Pac-Man and ghosts to traverse it." "The vector tiles allow us to use just the road network to create the maze," Tantalo says.
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