Snake Game

This is a simple version of the snake.io game available online. It's a fun way to play around with basic animation in a terminal.

How to Play

Run the game's executable using the command ./snake_game.

• Use the arrow keys or WASD to move the snake in the respective direction.
• Food is depicted as *.
• The snake's head is depicted as O, and its body is depicted using o for the length of the snake.
• The borders are depicted with #.

The game will continue to run until the user chooses to quit the game using the q key, or runs into a wall, after which the user's final score will be displayed in the terminal.

To-Dos/Future Ideas

• Fix the appearance of the game border. mvprintw seems to not want to print two characters in the same row, so it is overwriting the left-side border with the right-side border.
• Add collision functionality for when the snake collides with itself.
• Add in functionality that has the snake continue moving in the previous direction until a different direction key is provided, which would increase the difficulty of the game.
• Generate food at a certain time interval (instead of generating only after the previous food has been consumed).
• Implement a direction change buffer, that would collect the direction changes from the keyboard. Buffer would check new direction requests from the user to make sure it isn't the opposite of the last direction pushed onto the stack (disallow the user from turning the snake on itself), and to make capture any direction requests the user may make by spamming the keyboard (instead of taking the last seen direction request, would implement the new directions in requested order). Buffer would have a maximum size of ~2-3 to limit the user from pre-planning moves too far into the future.