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In order to run the sample game pacman, make sure that you have J2SDK 1.4.x + well installed and well configured on your system, and you have already downloaded the binary release of Espresso Game Template (or, you have already built the project from source successfully).

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Go to the directory where the following two jar files are:
- espresso.jar
- log4j-1.2.8.jar

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If your system is M$ Windows, run the pacman game using the following command:
[cmd] java -classpath %CLASSPATH%;log4j-1.2.8.jar;espresso.jar com.heavyz.espresso.pacman.Play... read more

In order to build from source, make sure that you have the following software well installed and well configured on your system:

- J2SDK 1.4.x +
http://java.sun.com
- Apache Ant 1.5.4 +
http://ant.apache.org

1.
Unzip the source release to any directory you like. We call it $ESPRESSO_HOME.

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Change directory to $ESPRESSO_HOME:
[cmd] cd $ESPRESSO_HOME
You will find two direcotories called com/ and javalib/ and a file called build.xml.
- com/ contains all the source codes of Espresso Game Template, including the core and pacman game.
- javalib/ contains Apache Log4j 1.2.8 jar file.
- build.xml is the makefile of Apache Ant.... read more

This is the second stable release of Espresso Game Template. Core is redesigned based on Expresso Game Template 0.2.29 (the first stable release). A sample game PACMAN is also implemented on this architecture. 2 missions and 1 kind of ghost are supported.