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tsnake, a terminal snake game

tsnake is a terminal snake game written in C++ using the ncurses library with support for maps and interactive resizing.

Move the snake using the arrow keys [↑↓←→], [wasd] or vi's [hjkl]. Here are some controls:

[p] Pause the game
[r] Restart with next map
[q] Quit

The game starts with a speed of 2 m/s and every 20 points the speed is increased until a maximum of 20 m/s. If cheat mode is enabled (--cheat), the speed can be increased with [+] and decreased with [-].

The game has a few maps which can be chosen using the -m option. Otherwise, maps are cycled automatically when the game is restarted.

Requirements

C++17
ncurses

Installation

If you are on Arch Linux or derivatives, use our tsnake AUR package:

$  yay -S tsnake

You are done.

If you are on any other distro, first clone the repository.

$  git clone git@gitlab.com:langurmonkey/tsnake.git && cd tsnake

Then, build and install the software.

$  make && make install

You may need to run the make install as a superuser.

Running

To run the software, just do:

$  tsnake

Usage

Here is the info listed by the --help flag.

Usage: tsnake [OPTION]...

Options:
 -h		shows usage information
 -v		prints version and exit
 -n [SIZE]	set inital size of snake, which defaults to 4
 -m [MAP_NUM]	number of the first map to use as an integer, which is cycled
		using (map % nmaps)
 -c		deactivate colors
 -x, --cheat	activate cheat mode where speed can be increased and
		decreased with '+' and '-'

Also, you can check out the man page after installing if you wish.

$  man tsnake