marxav0319/snake

An implementation of the classic game "Snake" in pygame

snake

An implementation of the classic game "Snake" in C++ with SDL2. The object of the game is to obtain the purple food items while avoiding colliding with the snake's own growing body. Each time the snake consumes a food item, it's body length increases by one square. Moving to the edge of the screen simply makes the snake appear on the opposite side of the screen. Upon losing the game, the game pauses for 1 second, then restarts the game. To quit the game, simply hit ESC or close the game window.

Progress

The first draft of this is done! Although this is very much what would be called an alpha release, there are a few bugs and a number of things that could be fixed/improved. However, for the most part, the game is now playable.

Building

This has been tested only on Windows 10 so far, but I'll be testing on my Linux machine soon. To build, you'll need to get the SDL2 libraries for your operating system. For windows, that means you'll need to download the development libraries here, and then properly link them.

I have a makefile with a recipe I used, you may use the same. I used mingw g++ and the SDL2 32 bit libraries, so to run this please do the same. I renamed the 32-bit SDL2 directory SDL2, then followed the linking process noted in the makefile. You should also create a bin directory in the root of this repository, then store the dynamic library SDL2.dll in that bin directory. Running make will generate the output file snake.exe, which you may then run.

The dynamic libraries needed to link for Windows 10 are:

• libgcc_s_dw2-1.dll - from mingw
• libstdc++-6.dll - from mingw
• SDL2.dll - from SDL2

Bugs

These are bugs I've found so far, I'm sure there are more but this is from my cursory look.

1. In certain cases, the snake's body separates, (usually into two pieces) that act independantly and do not respond to user input.

Enhancements

These are great add-ons to have when the bugs are gone.

1. It would be great if you could choose the colors of the snake. Some presets would be great too.
2. Use different shapes for the snake and the food - even better maybe use sprites.
3. Make the background more interesting than a black screen.
4. Add an intro screen and a restart screen.