Abdelbary / SnakeGame-Cpp

2D snake game in c++ using SDL library

CPPND: Capstone Snake Game Example

The code for this repo was inspired by this excellent StackOverflow post and set of responses.

Dependencies for Running Locally

• cmake >= 3.7
  • All OSes: click here for installation instructions
• make >= 4.1 (Linux, Mac), 3.81 (Windows)
  • Linux: make is installed by default on most Linux distros
  • Mac: install Xcode command line tools to get make
  • Windows: Click here for installation instructions
• SDL2 >= 2.0
  • All installation instructions can be found here
  • Note that for Linux, an apt or apt-get installation is preferred to building from source.
• gcc/g++ >= 5.4
  • Linux: gcc / g++ is installed by default on most Linux distros
  • Mac: same deal as make - install Xcode command line tools
  • Windows: recommend using MinGW

Basic Build Instructions

1. Clone this repo.
2. Make a build directory in the top level directory: mkdir build && cd build
3. Compile: cmake .. && make
4. Run it: ./SnakeGame.

Game Play

• The game has three different feeding points a normal, shrink ,killer.
• Normal feed point grow the snake by one cell and increase it's speed.
• Shrink feed point shring the snake back to one cell size and restore it's defult speed.
• For each shrink feeding point taken by the player a premenent killer point will be placed on the play board.
• If the player eaten any of the killer red points instant death is the result.
• If the player hit his body with his head instant death is the result.
• When the game ends it store the final score to scores file and retrieve the highest score from that file and print it in terminal

File and Class Structure

There are 5 classes in My Submitted implementation.

class name	Purpose
Controller	Interact with users, let users use keyboard to control the snake in the game.
Game	Game class stores the state in the game, the function object run has the game run in loops til end.
Renderer	render the game to the screen.
Snake	contains attributes to keep track of the Snake speed, size, and location.
Logger	Read, Write and print the history record for players.