TexTron Snake is very simple ascii snake game tributed to classic Tron arcade. It was meant to be developed as a collaborative programming exercise in course on Open Source Systems taught for undergraduate CS students.
Quick instructions:
- If you have obtained the project source from the version control repository
Excute the script
$ ./autogen.sh
to boostrap the build configuration scripts configure. You'll need GNU Build
System (Autotools) installed. In debian/ubuntu based plataforms, you may
install required software with
sudo apt install automake autoconf
- If you have either obtanied the project from a distribution repository or
bootstraped the build system as described above, and already have the build
configuration script
configure, then execute it
$ ./configure
$ make
- Alternatively, if you have obtained the source from a distribution tarball, you should already have the configuration script pre-built. In this case, you may skip evoking autotools and use just
$ ./configure
$ make
Optionally, if you wish to build and install the software under /tmp/foo
$ ./configure --prefix=/tmp/foo
$ make
$ make install
Scene files are installed under $(prefix)/share/textronsnake.
You'll need libncurses and pthread support to build the software.
- Detailed instructions: refer to file
INSTALL
Usage: ttsnake
The program will load scene files from the scenes directory.
Controls:
+ decreases the game speed
- increases the game speed
q quits