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!
- C
- C++
- That's it for now 😄
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):
