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Comment by bogtog | Hacker News Reader

The game looks really good, although I think it'd be improved if the sphere was a bit smaller. It feels like it takes too long for the game to become difficult

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Here's a console command you can run to increase the snake length immediately, and thus the difficulty:

   (() => { let count = 50; const delay = 100; const interval = setInterval(() => { addSnakeNode(); if (--count <= 0) clearInterval(interval); }, delay);})()

Why wrap in a lambda?

Could be to allow use of local variables that do not leak into the scope this code is executed in. That's what I use this pattern for.

pro tip: no longer necessary

    { let count = 50; const interval = setInterval(() => { addSnakeNode(); if (--count <= 0) clearInterval(interval); }, 100) }

And polluting the global variable namespace hardly matters when using the console.

Because I learned JS before ECMAScript 6 was widely supported by browsers and haven't written a ton of it targeting modern browsers. You're right that it's unnecessary.

Speed should slightly increase with each new apple

I strongly disagree, I like that the challenge comes from the snake getting longer as opposed to speed.

Agree - my millennial brain got bored quickly and it was still very easy.

Easy up to ~70, interesting between 80-110, very hard around 120-130. I think scores above 200 are pretty sus, there is very little room on the sphere at that point (using the cheat from sibling comment). Anything >400 is definitely made up.

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