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Micro Snake, based on Simon Huggins snake game.
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Micro Snake, based on Simon Huggins snake game.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/troglobit/snake
• Owner: troglobit
• Created: 2010-07-25T21:24:31.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2023-04-16T12:54:47.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-11T02:45:59.995Z (2 months ago)
• Language: C
• Homepage: http://troglobit.com/snake.html
• Size: 85.9 KB
• Stars: 31
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 27
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README

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Micro Snake

===========

![ASCII Image of Micro Snake](micro-snake.png "Play Micro Snake!")

The theme started with [Micro Tetris] continues with this version of the

snake (worm) game.  It is very small and only utilizes ANSI escape

sequences to draw the board.  Hence, very suitable for embedded devices.

Introduction

------------

From [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake_%28video_game%29):

> Snake is a video game released during the mid 1970s and has maintained

> popularity since then, becoming somewhat of a classic.  The first

> known microcomputer version of Snake, titled 'Worm', was programmed in

> 1978 by P. Trefonas (USA) on the TRS-80 computer, and published by

> CLOAD magazine the same year.  This was followed shortly afterwards

> with versions from the same author for the PET and Apple II computers.

> A microcomputer port of Hustle was first written by P. Trefonas in

> 1979 and published by CLOAD magazine [2].  This was later released by

> Milton Bradley for the TI-99/4A in 1980.

Playing the game

----------------

The aim of the game is to collect the gold ($), avoid cactuses (*) and

borders, including colliding with the tail of the snake itself. As you

collect gold, the snake gets longer, thus increasing the likelihood of

crashing into yourself.  When all gold has been collected you are hauled

to the next level without any warning.  For each new level the snake

gets longer and the amount of gold and cactuses increases.

You get scored according to the length of the snake and the number of

cactuses on the screen.  The speed increases every 5 levels.  You get a

bonus of 1000 points when you complete each level.

**Note:** There is no concept of lives.  Once you hit an obstacle,

that's it, game over.

To move the snake:

    a - Up,

    z - Down,

    o - Left

    p - Right

    

    f - Left turn

    j - Right turn

    

    q - Quit the game at any time.

There is a define in `snake.h` you can change if you want to alter these

settings.  Make sure you do not have caps lock on, otherwise the keys

will fail to respond.

Origin & References

-------------------

Micro Snake is based on an original implementation by [Simon Huggins].

Current maintainer is [Joachim Nilsson].

The orignal version of the source code is available as the first commit

of the official Git repository.  Note that Simon's original use library

functions that are not available on all systems -- it was designed using

Borland C++ Builder / Turbo C.  Most of this has been refactored during

the porting effort to GNU/Linux.  There has also been some game design

changes to improve the overall feeling.

[Micro Tetris]:    http://github.com/troglobit/tetris

[Repository]:      http://github.com/troglobit/snake

[Issue Tracker]:   http://github.com/troglobit/snake/issues

[Simon Huggins]:   http://github.com/huggyfee

[Joachim Nilsson]: http://troglobit.com

[tarball]:         http://troglobit.com/snake/snake-1.0.1.tar.bz2

[hashfile]:        http://troglobit.com/snake/snake-1.0.1.tar.bz2.md5