New Game: Snake

[Under4MHZ]

The classic snake game. Collect the apples and get those random bonus rodents before they disappear. Dodge the walls but don't run into your tail.

 

 
 

 

 

 

Snake-COL-1.02.zip

Edited March 10 by Under4MHZ

[youki]

Very fun!   I love Snake games! Thanks!

[Tekman]

Thanks! It's working great on the ADAM.

[zyzzle]

Really neat! Thanks. Like a perfect clone of the game "Viper" on the Apple II!

[Nicam_Shilova]

Little but fun game. Good work !

[NIAD]

Thanks! There are quite a few Snake games to choose from for the CV and ADAM and your's is now at the top of the list.

 

[+bhall408]

Nice and colorful!

I gave it a try and Argon, and it runs well, but I think would benefit by being more forgiving about diagonal inputs.

 

As an example, if you were headed to the left and provided a up+right or down+right, it considers that back-tracking and kills you. Oddly, you could do left + up  or left + down and it does nothing (ignores the input), so it only ever penalizes for diagonal inputs

 

in fact, it might be nicer if it ended up ignorning all inputs that would backtrack, rather than killing you for backtracking. 

 

[Under4MHZ]

I've updated to ignore backtrack inputs and improved diagonal input.

Snake-COL-1.03.zip

[+bhall408]

On 3/15/2021 at 12:45 AM, Under4MHZ said:

I've updated to ignore backtrack inputs and improved diagonal input.

 

Can confirm the backtrack inputs are now ignored - that is a big help!

 

You can still do some odd things with diagonals.

 

Here is a screen shot showing one of them -- head the snake down, and then input a diagonal down, and you end up with a 90 degree bend at the point you did the diagonal input.

 

[Under4MHZ]

I've updated it to only accept only on input per frame.

Snake-COL-1.04.zip

[+bhall408]

6 hours ago, Under4MHZ said:

I've updated it to only accept only on input per frame.

That did the trick - plays super smooth in Argon now. For the first time, I was able to make it to level 2