Snóke, old snake game with new ideas

The rules of the game

The game has several levels to complete. The goal is simple: find the snake shed skin, eat the exact amount of fruit to reach the size of that skin, and cover it precisely.

• You lose if you eat to much, bump into the area border, or into yourself

• Bananas make you move faster (except when you reach your target size)

• You get bonus points if you eat the next fruit with an optimal path!

Screenshots

(v0.1)

Video

https://youtu.be/h1MC9-xDKFA

(v0.1)

Install

Binaries

If you're lucky, you may just download one of the precompiled binaries of the latest release, or one of the latest automatic builds (ubuntu and macos). You will need to have the SDL2 library installed on your system.

From source

It's also easy to build Snóke from source, and it will take care of all dependencies. This requires ocaml, and the opam package manager.

Just do:

opam pin add https://github.com/sanette/snoke.git
opam install snoke

Or, download or clone this repo, cd into the snoke dir, and

opam install .

Then you should be able to launch the game with

snoke

Alternatively, instead of the install step, you can directly run the game with

cd src
dune exec ./snoke.exe

How did you make such a wonderful and entertaining game?

First of all, it's written is ocaml which makes it fun to code! While ocaml is not particularly known for games, I came across this nice blog article by Florent Monnier and realized it would make a good challenge for testing the GUI library Bogue.

You can read here how it all started.

TODO

• Joystick support
• DONE (v0.3) ~~First opam package.~~
• DONE (v0.2) ~~The snake should have 3 lives before game over~~
• DONE (v0.2-halloween-wink) ~~Eat pumkins!~~
• More levels
• High-scores list
• More fruit with effects
• Background music(?)