This is fun.
Download here: http://luigihann.googlepages.com/pacman.rar

Screens:

WOOHOO!

Could have custom sound effects added, though, for more laughs.

A "Wakka" sound for every beat would be nice.

Actually, I think you can make a song have the "wakka" sound via customizing a beatmap. You can already give a map a custom skin, and I believe you can also have custom sounds too... so I say LuigiHann should make some sort of pacman song beatmap. >_>

What file type and what filename?

Curse you and your clever ideas... making me go back after my skin is done... grumble grumble.

I'm busy now, but I like that idea, so I will add it

I have added this as official for now. Will update it when you get the scorebar changed, but I feel its too good to wait any longer

It's nice, but I have one thing nagging me about it. First of all, Pac-Man looks a bit off currently. Considering you're going for a retro look, have you tried making Pac-Man a bit...rougher? More pixelated? Like in the lifebar? The skip button could lose it's 3D effects, too, for the same reason.

Otherwise, it's looking pretty nice. If we get those slider background images sometime, they could use a bit tweaking too, but it's not something you can do at this time.

Cheers.

Updated version here: http://luigihann.googlepages.com/pacman.rar

I changed a few things besides the life bar. Playing around with the "approach circle" is fun, but the result is always too distracting to actually use, so I left it with the default one.

Fraeon, I kind of agree with you. I added a black border to Pac-man, which helps him fit in better with the style of the skin. The reason I don't make him more pixelly is mostly because the original arcade animation of him "munching" is only 3 frames, and I couldn't add frames in any non-awkward way. Plus, with the rotation, it'd look a bit off anyway. Still, rest assured that I did think about it.

The italics and shading are just intended to give it more of a psuedo-retro feel, rather than an actual representation of game sprites. Because 80's gaming was all about imagining that games looked better than they did.

Peppy, can I make a couple requests about the slider? Hopefully these aren't too complex, and if they are, feel free to ignore them.
A) I don't care about texture or graphics or anything, but it'd be nice if I could choose the color of the fill and the border, perhaps in the ini, with the option of using the combo color or not. That could hypothetically get a little complex, I don't know much about how it's done, but it'd be nice.
B) Right now, you've probably noticed, if Pac-man hits a reverse arrow he starts backing up. It'd be nice if the graphic flipped around so he always faces forward

Other than those two things, this skinning engine is fantastic for surreal things like this. I think I will make some kind of Pac-Man song beatmap now.

Under general you can now add

[General]
SliderBallFlip = 1

Under colours you can now add

[Colours]
SliderBorder = 255,255,255
SliderTrackOverride = 128,128,128

These will be available in the next build. I will update the skin template later this week.

Thanks you very much!

Also - if you want to get ahead you can start skinning the playfield/menu backgrounds.

http://pe.ppy.sh/playfield.png for a template. Make sure you stick to greyscaled - as this gets coloured in-game (subtractive filter).

Well yeah. That'd just be kind of a waste of frames, though. (Read: I like how it looks now )