Snake

Demonstration

demo.mp4

Setup (KxK)

The code is created such that the user can select any reasonable board size and have a comfortable playing experience. For the best experience, I recommend setting the board size to 20. Anything < 50 is what I would deem reasonable.

To change the board size, please navigate to the main file and change the value for k to your desired size.

How to run

Before beginning please make sure you have python installed on your system.

• Download the files from the GitHub repository

• Export the contents of the zipped folder to a given location

• Once the contents have been exported to a folder, navigate to this folder and open main.py

• Execute the file by clicking on the "Run" tab at the top and then clicking "Run Module." Or you can simply press "F5"

Personal Overview

This project was surpisingly quite easy to create, especially if we consider the deault texture of the snake I had initially implemented - strictly pygame colours rather than the images I currently have. This aim of this project was just a test of my ability and to see if I was actually able to create the snake game in a robust and clear OO style.

Improvements

I would've quite liked to have implemented animations for the snake body such as:

• a swaying of the body from side-to-side as snakes do in real life when they move (slithering). However, upon attempting to implement this I found it a little too hard and didnt want to spend too long on one feature. Pherhaps with more experience and more projects under my belt I could remake this.

  

• To include enemy snakes that use user must dodge. I was simply too lazy to implement this and am satisfied with the default standard snake game for now.

• A starting menu with options for snake textures or just standard colours

• A solving algorithm that would complete the board for you. Again looking into this it seemed a little too advanced with my current skill set. Fortunately the discrete maths book I've been studying for the past 8 months did cover graphs and hamiltonion paths so it wasn't completely foreign.

Future projects

The following projects I am going to attempt to develop are:

• Minesweeper
• 2048
• Doodle Jump