Classic snake game on the terminal

nsnake is a clone of the classic snake game that we all used to play on our cellphones. You play this game on the terminal, with textual interface.

Here's some features:

• Customizable gameplay, appearance and keybindings;
• Neat GUI-like interface with nice animations;
• Lots of possible game modes, with scores saved for each;

The keybindings are completely customizable on the in-game menus. The default ones are:

nSnake depends on two following libraries, ncurses and iniparser.

This library shows cute things on the terminal.

For nSnake you need the package ncurses dev. Note that it's not the default that comes with your distro.

If you know the means to install on other distros, please tell me.

This library is used to parse .ini configuration files.

If you know the means to install on other distros, please tell me.

Briefly, the following shell commands should configure, build and install this package on the default directories:

$ make
$ [sudo] make install

If you want to test it before installing, do:

$ make run

Then, it's simple:

$ man nsnake
$ nsnake

To change the default installation directories, check file INSTALL.md.

Hello there, I'm Alexandre Dantas (kure)!

Thanks for downloading and playing this game. I'm glad you had interest on this project. You can send me comments, bugs, ideas or anything else by email. And if you have time, please visit my blog!

My email: eu@alexdantas.net My homepage: http://www.alexdantas.net/ nsnake main page: http://nsnake.alexdantas.net/

I'd appreciate any commentary - even if it's just "Hello, I play your game!".

Firstly, I'd like to thank you for playing this game. Hope you liked it!

The whole game design, coding, documenting, packaging and testing were all made by me, on my free time.

But I didn't do everything! Throughout the nsnake development, I found very interesting sources of ideas - such as games that also uses nCurses for displaying graphics. They have simple, short and commented source-codes that can be used as references to learn C programming.

Special thanks to:

• nInvaders: A space invaders-like game using ncurses.

  • homepage: http://ninvaders.sourceforge.net
  • comments: "Thanks for the inspiration. If I haven't installed this in first place, I'd never have the idea for nsnake"

• pacman4console: A console-based pacman game.

  • homepage: http://doctormike.googlepages.com/pacman.html
  • comments: "The way this package was organized is incredible. Thanks for the general packaging ideas"

• vadorz: An addicting ncurses space-invaders game.

  • homepage: http://code.google.com/p/vadorz/
  • comments: "This package is awesome, 'cause it uses ncurses AND pdcurses to be able to play in Windows and GNU/Linux"

• snake4: Fruit-eating snake game

  • homepage: http://shh.thathost.com/
  • comments: "Thanks for the Makefile ideas. It's very well-written."

• ASCII Generator: A generator of awesome ASCII text arts

  • homepage: http://www.network-science.de/ascii/

• Text ASCII Art Generator: Another awesome ASCII text generator

  • homepage: http://patorjk.com/software/taag/
  • comments: "I've used the Modular font to display the Game Over screen"

nsnake - The classic snake game with ncurses. Copyright (C) 2011,2014 Alexandre Dantas

nsnake is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

homepage: http://www.alexdantas.net/projects/nsnake/ mailto: eu@alexdantas.net