go-snake

🐍 A cli snake game in Go

How I created it

It took me quite some time to figure out how I should do it.

The one thing bothering me was gamestate and how should I handle it. At first I've created a Live like snake game which move on its own:

• The snake goes to the same direction unless we change its direction. But using a 2D array for gamestate has no use case here. (IMO)

So I've changed the way how to code it (current branch master).

In my interpretation,

• gamestate as it is a 2D array

• So creating a game based on the 2D array will be very interesting

• So each item in the array is tile

• So whenever I want to persist something in the gamestate,

• I just create a tile for it.

  • See Cell

• Using the Cell, we can construct the entire state of the game with numbers

• Since it is a flat surface (2D), we can't have the same item at the same position

• The move of the user should be decided by the user, so the best case scenario is to make it sequential and wait for the user input.

How long it took

• It took me about 10 hours, 5 hours in the wrong direction see wip branch, and 5 additional hours for this version.

How to run it

Simply use the Makefile, or run go run ./cmd/main.go --size N where N is the size of the Board (Width and Height)