Genvid’s Pac-Man Community hits 6M players and 17K user-generated mazes
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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.
And Genvid also announced today the addition of new features including community achievements, a Clock Mode and AI companions. Some of the player mazes are getting tens of thousands of plays.
“The community continues to build crazily and beyond our expectations,” said Jacob Navok, CEO of Genvid, in an interview with GamesBeat. “It’s been in beta for most of the last few months. We’re exiting beta as we’re confirming that everything is working. We built the features that we said that we were going to build like community achievements.”
The company announced Pac-Man Community Cares, a charitable initiative focused on giving back to gaming-related nonprofit organizations. The first PMC Cares project involved providing direct game development experience to a group of underserved youths from the New York Video Game Critics Circle making custom mazes.
“Pac-Man Community is unique among the many iterations and adaptations of our flagship game, as it offers so many ways to share and connect with Pac-Man,” said Mio Kaneko, manager of Pac-Man business and global team at Bandai Namco Entertainment, in a
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