TermSnake - Terminal Based Snake Game

TermSnake is a simple implementation of the famous Snake game.

It is developed in C language, and uses the ncurses library to display graphics in console mode.

Conception and implementation choices have been made to make TermSnake a fun C programming mini-project for beginners.

Commands

• LEFT orient the snake left
• RIGHT orient the snake right
• UP : orient the snake top
• DOWN : orient the snake down
• Q or q: quit the game

Features

• The game area has a fixed size, defined in advance
• The snake's speed increases each time a food is eaten, until reaching a maximum speed
• There is only one level of difficulty. The goal is to achieve the highest score

Technologies

The project is written in C, fully compatible with C89/C90 standard.

The only dependency of the project is the ncurses library. The project was developed and tested with version 6.1 of ncurses.

Compile and launch

Installing CMake

On Ubuntu 18.04

sudo apt-get install cmake

Installing C compiler

On Ubuntu 18.04

sudo apt-get install build-essential

Installing ncurses library

On Ubuntu 18.04

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev

Compiling and launching the game

On Ubuntu 18.04

mkdir build
cd build
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" <source-dir>
cmake --build .
./termsnake

License

This project is licensed under the terms of the MIT license. You can check out the full license here.