Uroboros is a pretty simple Snake clone that runs in your computer's terminal. It is confirmed to run on Linux. However, previous builds have also been tested on macOS.
Uroboros is a project I started as part of an effort to build more games by challenging myself to see what I could build in only a week. The bulk of the game's logic was written in only two days (actually one and a half, with the other half dedicated to troubleshooting my compilers) and much of the rest of the time so far has been spent smoothing things out.
You are a snake. Your objective is to eat many apples. Unfortunately, eating apples makes your tail longer, and if you bite your tail by accident you'll lose the game, largely because biting your tail is against the rules, but also because you died.
In this version of Snake, moving off the edge of the screen causes you to wrap around to the other side, rather than dying.
- Move: Arrow keys
- Pause: p
- Quit: q
- Increase Speed: = (plus key)
- Decrease Speed: - (minus key)
- Version: v
- View License: c
You can personalize your game by editing options.txt. Instructions on how to do so are included in that file.
Uroboros is a very simple game, structurally, and as such there aren't any fancy bells or whistles you need to compile it, and you don't have to learn how to use makefiles.
The one thing that Uroboros needs is a curses implementation. On Linux and macOS, ncurses has been used successfully, and ncurses is readily available for POSIX systems in general via package managers.
On Windows, PDCurses has been used, which requires a bit more futzing with because Windows doesn't like to make things easy for you, but you should be able to figure it out with some simple Internet searches.
Uroboros can be compiled via a single gcc command like so:
gcc -I include src/options.c src/segment.c src/snake.c src/display.c src/rank.c src/hiscore.c src/main.c -o uroboros -lncurses
For Windows I've been able to successfully use MinGW, although I've found that cross-compiling from Linux is slightly easier if you know how to do it, because third-party 32-bit compliers are becoming increasingly difficult to find and I'm not sure PDCurses even supports 64-bit systems. Your mileage may vary.
To make a debug build, go into include/globals.h and enable the DEBUG flag
by un-commenting the line it's defined on.
Uroboros has been voluntarily released into the public domain and I retain no copyright, patents, or other interests in the software. You can compile it, modify it, share it with your friends, sell it for profit, launch it into space, tattoo it on your forearm, or even release it under the GPL for all I care. Go bananas. Just bear in mind that Uroboros is released with absolutely no warranty and that I will not be held liable for any damages under any circumstances.