sssnake

The classic snake game for the terminal that can plays itself and be use like a screensaver.

Installation

You need ncurses specifically ncursesw which is included in these packages:

apt install libncurses-dev       #Debian/Ubuntu/Mint
yum install ncurses-devel        #RHEL/CentOS/Fedora and Rocky Linux/AlmaLinux
pacman -S ncurses                #Arch Linux
zypper install ncurses-devel     #OpenSUSE 
xbps-install -S ncurses-devel    #Void linux

With that you can just do:

make
make install

Usage

(The options are different than the options on the released versions. If you installed this program from the released page please check "sssnake -h")

By default it will run like a normal snake game that you can control with wasd, hjkl(vi keys) or the arrow keys. But try this

sssnake -m screensaver -s 15

or

sssnake -l full -m screensaver -s 15 -j 5

press Q to quit.

Use the -h options to see the option details.

Faq

• Does the snake fills the entire screen/terminal with the autopilot? No, at least not for now. I have plans to make the snake unkillable but unlike the current solution this will be resource intensive so it will have to be optional and not default.
• Why the name "sssnake"? All the snake games in the terminal that I found use ascii characters and lets be honest, they are kinda ugly. I try to do something more visually appealing, something "sexy" and it can play itself so it is "smart". Smart and sexy snake => sssnake.
• Why C? I like simple and efficient things.

Credits

• Min heap implementation base on Martin Broadhurst min-heap ( http://www.martinbroadhurst.com/min-heap-in-c.html )
• A* base on (https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/a-search-algorithm/)