A programmer has developed a procedural Pac-Man maze generator. Decades-old Pac-Man is a favorite subject among coders, especially if they grew up playing it.

You can even pass the program a black and white PNG “mask” which it will use as the boundaries for the maze itself, allowing for personalized puzzles of whatever shape catches your fancy.

According to Francesco, although the maze generator was set to 72,000 ticks in his Minecraft video, it was merely to speed up the generation process. With that in mind, one might reason that ...