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Terminal Snake Game

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25 pointskeyboardman10 comments

Great to see this little tribute to NIBBLES.BAS. Anyone else who learned coding Microsoft QBasic/QuickBasic with Nibbles at an age of six?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nibbles_(video_game)

Age of 9 or 10 here. But yeah. That and GORILLAS.BAS. Then the MSDOS manual, batch, Visual Basic, POVRAY, Slackware 3...

great, those were the days! However, you got me with Slackware, I started with SuSE Linux instead.. ;)

crobots[0]?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crobots

Oh cool! Have never heard about that but it looks like quite an interesting idea.

cool, here's mine in python https://github.com/jquast/blessed/blob/master/bin/worms.py

looks like https://asciinema.org/a/8682

You can also watch snake in the terminal being live coded here

https://youtu.be/U-gdJQeOVAk?t=1501

cool, although if you want to play snake in the terminal without building C++ from source, and you use the debian/ubuntu package:

   apt-get install nsnake

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/bionic/man6/nsnake.6.htm...

Because of using a rectangular ASCII symbol the snake seems to be moving much faster vertically than horizontally ...

This problem can be easily solved using the unicode half block character. People who make these terminal toys rarely leverage unicode (I suppose for aesthetic reasons?).

Here's an example of what you can achieve just with unicode chars:

https://github.com/stefanhaustein/TerminalImageViewer

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