https://github.com/magnetrwn/some-ncurses-snakes

A collection of implementations of Snake in different programming languages, using ncurses.
https://github.com/magnetrwn/some-ncurses-snakes

ncurses ncurses-game ncurses-library ncurses-tui ncurses-ui

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A collection of implementations of Snake in different programming languages, using ncurses.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/magnetrwn/some-ncurses-snakes
• Owner: magnetrwn
• License: mit
• Created: 2023-09-15T18:37:08.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-09-19T18:49:32.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2023-09-19T21:41:09.613Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: ncurses, ncurses-game, ncurses-library, ncurses-tui, ncurses-ui
• Language: C
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• Size: 47.9 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Some `ncurses` Snakes!

**Developing a simple version of Snake in various programming languages!**

Each folder contains a version of the game Snake for terminal that interfaces with `ncurses` to provide the game UI, or some other library in case it's not available.

I thought of this idea to learn Go, but now I want to expand it a little, just to give it a touch of many different languages.

**Make sure to check the implementation-specific READMEs, not just this one!**

## Current Implementations

+ C

+ C++

+ That's it for now :smile:

## C and C++ Version

The possible Snake algorithms I had thought of for the game were:

+ Store a list of snake node coordinates, direction, and next_direction

+ **Store a list of snake rotations and only the head coordinates, then draw backward and rotate when meeting rotation points**

+ Use a delayed tail approach, which moves the same as the head but after N steps and clears nodes instead of applying them

Since C can be considered lower level than other popular languages, I wanted to make something a bit more interesting algorithmically, so I decided to implement the snake by using a linked list of rotations (the second one). This allows the program to use memory way more efficiently to store the Snake!

Inside the `c/` or `cpp/` folder. You can find a few sources, headers and build script for Snake. Just execute the script and run `snake` once complete!

Here is an Asciinema Demo of the C version (C++ is very similar):