While this is shameless self promotion I thought it's technical trickery and the final very playable game was worth publishing to the community.

It's a near full implementation of a Pac-Man style game in 25 lines of ActionScript 3.0 code. As an entry into the 25-Line ActionScript Contest it had to conform to some quite restrictive rules so the code formatting is not my usual beautifully formed object oriented class structure. The code is now open source as a result of being a finalist in the contest.

Apart from sound, which I planned to implement on line 25 but ran out of time, it is a complete and playable version of the game, with increasing difficulty and basic artificial intelligence for the ghosts. The techniques and somewhat unusual hacks implemented were a result of doing my best to stay within the rules, it certainly did push them to the edge though!

In total it used only 24 of the 25 lines and the compiled .SWF weighed in at a tiny 4.40 KB.

If you'd like to see the code and play the game and perhaps even vote for me ;) then you can access it here http://www.25lines.com/?page_id=231 .. if you decide to vote my entry is 007 ..you can't really miss the Pac-Man game amongst the other finalists .. you will need to register in order to vote.

I will be sharing much more code for various game engines in a much more readable form in future!