gamesgil / snakeinthedom

A classic Snake demo rendered in the DOM

Snake in the DOM

Overview

Originally I've created this demo game for a talk at NaturalIntelligence. This is a small version of the original game of Snake made famous by Nokia. This projects demonstrates the following concepts:

• MVC
• JS module pattern
• Using the DOM as a viable game bed

MVC

The project contains 3 main components:

• game.js serves as the model and BL
• view.js controls the display
• index.js is the controller synching the game and view

Additionally there's also a Utils module with flat array to matrix-like and vice-versa. Can't do without these functions in a grid-based game.

The (Revealing) Module Pattern

This pattern prevents tempering with its internals and serves as a very good class alternative. It also provides support for private objects as well as an exposed interface.

Webpack

I've used webpack to package the project with ES5 transpiling via Babel.