Inspired by Mary live-codes a JavaScript game from scratch, I decided to spend my sick leave making another snake game. (See previous at worm.kakspistenolla.com.) I did spent quite a bit more than 30 minutes, but in my defence, I'm pretty sure Mary had a practise run before her public live coding session.
A version of the game can be found at snake.kakspistenolla.com. It's probably the latest version, but that isn't guaranteed.
Test coverage is only partial. Modern browsers supported.
The game starts when the page loads. Control the snake with your arrow keys. That's it.
The game speeds up over time, slowly but surely.
The game will end when any of the following is true
- you hit a wall
- you hit yourself
- you hit a playing area boundary
- the pink longish (YMMV) thing with a red tip is your snake
- a dark orange square is an edible square worth 1 points
- a flashing square is a super square, worth anything between 50 and 300 points
- a dark green square is poisonous. It won't kill you (as long as you have a tail), but your tail will drop and turn into a wall, and your score will be reset to 0
- a black square is a wall
Each tick, there is a 0.05 % chance of a piece becoming poisoned, and a 0.02 % chance of a piece becoming a super square. A poisoned square will remain poisoned, a super square will return to normal after 15-45 seconds. A super square can also become poisoned at any time.
There is no high score list, not even a highest single score. It might be added tomorrow, or there might never be one. But it could go either way, depending on how carried away I will become.
Install browserify and run npm run build. This will create the static/bundle.js.
Install beefy and run npm run preview. Open the address printed to your console in your browser. Prepend with DEBUG=<namespace> to enable debug output.