https://github.com/taylorconor/quinesnake

A quine that plays snake over its own source!
https://github.com/taylorconor/quinesnake

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A quine that plays snake over its own source!

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/taylorconor/quinesnake
• Owner: taylorconor
• License: apache-2.0
• Created: 2019-04-25T17:24:17.000Z (almost 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-07-27T22:53:09.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-01T03:33:16.553Z (6 months ago)
• Language: C++
• Size: 218 KB
• Stars: 914
• Watchers: 16
• Forks: 57
• Open Issues: 1
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
# quinesnake

A quine that plays snake over its own source!

![quinesnake gif](animation.gif)

### How to run it

The program compiles itself; to run it first make the source file executable

(`chmod +x quinesnake.cpp`), then run it with `./quinesnake.cpp`. It invokes

`g++` on itself and then starts the game.

The snake is controlled with `w`, `a`, `s` and `d`.

Note: some people have reported issues where the snake and food appear black

in their terminals. This is likely due to the value of the environments

`TERM` variable. You can try run the program with:

```

TERM=xterm-256color ./quinesnake.cpp

```

This will tell curses that your terminal supports the high-intensity colour

range used by quinesnake.

### quinesnake.cpp

This is the quine version that also compiles itself and plays snake over its

own source. It requires:

- libcurses

- Some binary called `g++` needs to exist (tested with GCC and Clang)

- `/bin/ls` needs to exist and be executable

### quinesnake-commented.cpp

This version of the program isn't a quine and doesn't compile itself, but it

has all of the basic game-playing logic that the real version has, plus it's

commented and readable.