Python Snake Game

The classic snake game written in Python for the terminal using curses.

Default Characters

• Snake: #
• Food: *
• Background: .

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How to play

wasd or arrow keys or Vim hjkl for snake movement. q to quit. Any other key to pause. Press one of the movement keys to resume.

Running the game

python3 snake.py [flags]

Flags

See snake.py --help

Example configurations

python3 snake.py --char-head='☺' --char-snake='+' --char-bg=' '
python3 snake.py --color-snake blue --color-food red

Todo

• Make horizontal and vertical speeds equal (see commit history for details)
• Add support for best score saving/loading (tentative)