Gakman by Cloud Ruins

For the 2018 Jalloo game jam in Miramichi, New Brunswick, the team Dead Memes/Broken Dreams produced GAKMAN: a ruination of pacman featuring physics in a drug-induced hallucinatory environment. The gacked-out success of pacman left him in a state of disarray and dissolution after years of struggling to cope with his fame through the use of various illicit substances. The has-been gakman confronts his torture through the consumption of pills which progressively distort his world.

ARTISTS: Special thanks to Ben Leung and Brittany McKay for bringing Gakman to life through their visual artwork.

FONT - Animal Silence - by NALGAMES retrieved from dafont.com

Other members of the team:

Ryan Gowan - programming, concepts
Alex Pelletier - programming, concepts
Mohammad Al-Safwan - programming, concepts

Tracklist

1.	Gakman	1:33

Lyrics

Flurried fever dream
Shut up, pass me the pipe
Maxed to the extreme
Dying on the inside

What keeps the Gakman runnin'?
Gotta smoke a little sumthin' sumthin'
In a snafu
It's a gak-zoo

Keep the brain flogged
axons bogged
gak clogged

No exit, no turnin' back
Smokin' shit 'til the screen turns black

Powerpunched or gak-attacked
Keep the brain drained, whooped, and cracked

Flurried fever dream
Shut up, pass me the pipe
Maxed to the extreme
Dying on the inside

What'll stop the Gakman, now?
An apparition with a furrowed brow?

Laced pellet food
Get you in the mood
Mind stuck in a rut
Gotta drug-it-up-and-strut-it

No escape, gotta turn it up
Pop the powerpills 'til you self destruct

Credits

released June 17, 2018
Lyrics, composition, vox, sequencing, mixing - David McFarlane

Sequencing made possible with Rytmik Ultimate by CINEMAX

License

CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.