systems-programming-final

Game Description

This Snake Game is a simple yet engaging game where:

• A snake moves around the game board, consuming fruits.
• Each fruit eaten increases the snake's length and the player's score.
• The game ends if the snake collides with the walls or itself.

The game uses keyboard inputs (W, A, S, D) to control the snake's movement.

Features

This program integrates 5 main features:

1. Shell Scripting Integration: To build and run the program.
2. Timer Signals: To make periodical game updates.
3. Keyboard Control: To control the snake's movement.
4. Multi-Process Design: To separate game logic and user inputs (total of 2 processes). The parent process updates the game state and the screen, while the child process captures and communicates user inputs.
5. Inter-Process Communication: To enable communication between the two processes.

Build

To build this program, two things have to be installed:

1. A C compiler
2. The ncurses library

To compile and run the program, run sh Makefile.sh.

Use W (up), A (left), S (down), D (right) to navigate. After the game ends, press X to exit.