TonSilver / slyther

Java implementation of the slither.io client and server

slyther2

Dick Balaska's fork of gegy1000's Slyther

Features

• Fullscreen mode
• Database of previous game scores
• LWJGL 3 (on the slyther3 branch)
• Tool for monitoring/configuring/debugging the server
• Custom snakes (protocol 11)

Installing

You can fetch a prebuilt jar from the releases area.

Debian systems can install from launchpad.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dickbalaska/slyther
sudo apt update
sudo apt install slyther2
or
sudo apt install slyther3

slyther2 and slyther3 differ only slightly.

• slyther3 uses a manual cursor instead of the system cursor.
• slyther3 needs a better video card (even though the graphics are the same).

Note the built-in server is really primitive and probably best avoided.

Building

Slyther builds with Gradle, to build the standalone executable client and server jars run the following in the project root directory:

gradle jar

Run with

java -jar server/build/libs/slyther-server-2.1.0.jar

and

java -jar build/libs/slyther-2.1.0.jar

Branches

• master contains the LWJGL 2 client and the server
• slyther3 contains the LWJGL 3 client
• slythermon contains the server monitoring tool