lorancou/snakedemocracy

SnakeDemocracy — RIGHT. LEFT. VOTE.

SnakeDemocracy

LEFT. RIGHT. VOTE.

"We won't tolerate the ************ of one snake player anymore"
(Abraham Lincoln)

You like the good old game of "snake"? Turning left and right, growing, staying alive the longest you can?

But how would you feel about sharing the control... WITH THE PEOPLE?

In the web-game SNAKE DEMOCRACY, an unlimited number of players can join the ride and VOTE to decide where the snake should go next, knowing that a new move occurs automatically every 4 seconds, forward by default. Better yet, we provide a Twitter feed so you may call your friends upon this FUNDAMENTAL CIVIC DUTY (Unless you're a totalitarist dictator and want to play on your own, of course)... Also, every #snakedemocracy tweets bring MORE APPLES on the field!

And beware, to make a highscore, you must have the longest snake AND CONFIRM your score by biting your own tail... So chose wisely when this should happen, because the longer you will be, the harder it will be to stay alive!

(Almost democratic tip: every player can vote as much as he wants during the 4 seconds "election of the next move", by mashing a directional key... So an especially convinced voter may very well tip the balance in favor of his party)

Copyright (c) 2012 Christophe Zerr, Alexis Moroz, Laurent Couvidou

License - Software

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program (LICENSE_GPL file). If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

License - Assets

Assets are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC 3.0).

You should have received a copy of it with this program (LICENSE_CC file). If not, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/.

Known issues

There are some paranoid security software around that prevent socket.io from working correctly (like this one: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/). There's nothing that can be done about this.