Portable snake game written in c for terminal/winconsole with scaleable resolution

The game uses my simple cursor manipulation library and scales with terminal resolution.
requires jlib - download it manually or run the getjlib python script jlib included with v1.2 for added convenience

How to run

Precompiled Executables

• you can get a precompiled binary(executable) file for your system in the releases tab

Manual compilation

• linux: cd into the downloaded repo folder and type: gcc snake.c jlib/src/linux.c -o snake
• windows: install microsoft visual studio and add snake.c jlib.h and windows.c to your project, then build

Cmake

• cmake support added !!
• for some compilers such as mingw you need to edit the CMakeLists.txt of jlib

Demo pictures

• works with different resolutions

• low res example running in cool retro term

• works even on windows!

Controls

• w - up
• s - down
• a - left
• d - right
• p - pause
• q - quit

Known problems

• the speed increase value (when snake eats food) should be changed to a more fun value (this can be edited in the detect collision function)
• you cannot resize your game when it's running - it will mess up the screen