mikenye / snake

Classic "Snake" game, implemented in Ebitengine + Go

Snake

Classic "Snake" game, implemented in Go using the fantastic Ebitengine.

Instructions

• Arrow keys set the snake's direction (Nokia style).
• Eat the cupcakes.
• Don't eat yourself.
• If the snake goes off the edge of the screen, it will wrap around to the opposite edge.

Screenshots

Background

I recently watched Code-It-Yourself! Snake! - Programming from Scratch (Quick and Simple C++) by One Lone Coder, and thought this would be cool to implement in Go using Ebitengine.

I'm trying to get better at Golang and Ebitengine so this was a fun little exercise.

Requirements

• Golang version 1.22

Building

You can build by:

• Cloning the repo
• Run go mod tidy from the root of the repo to download Ebitengine and other required modules.
• Run go run main.go to run the app.
• Run go build -o <path_to_binary> to build an executable binary.