Grid Snake

[Mr. T]

Last year, for my grade 10 FP, I made Uncle Worm (basically Snake with a few modifications) but I had no time to implement a grid system, as suggested by others. Anyway, I decided to try out the grid (shown to me by jamonathin), and turn it into a working snake game. So here (attached file) is snake at its most basic level. I will add updates when I find the time.
Note: In my version, you are allowed to go through walls without losing a life.

[[Gandalf]]

Not bad, you could try to improve response/reaction time though. Not much to say... An alright beginning, you don't really need to see the grid though...

[Mr. T]

1. I used the grid just to show (visually) that all the elements of the game correspond to the grid.
2. Ya, I noticed that it is difficult to make sharp turns. Why could that be?
3. I tried using whatdotcolour to prevent food being drawn on the snake's body, but to no avail. Why could that be?

[MysticVegeta]

I never die.

[Cervantes]

Pwned wrote:

1. I used the grid just to show (visually) that all the elements of the game correspond to the grid.
2. Ya, I noticed that it is difficult to make sharp turns. Why could that be?
3. I tried using whatdotcolour to prevent food being drawn on the snake's body, but to no avail. Why could that be?

2. Probably due to keys being pressed when the delay is going on. Check out how I solved this problem in my snake.

3. Possibly problems with when you're drawing and when you're updating and when you're whatdotcolour checking. But the bottom line is: Don't use whatdotcolour! A grid system makes condition checking collision exceedingly easy.

Disclaimer: I have not run the program.

[Mr. T]

MysticVegeta wrote:

I never die.

[[Gandalf]]

Pwned wrote:

MysticVegeta wrote:

I never die.

I can't remember, but it is either impossible or very hard to lose in your game...

[Mr. T]

Run into yourself, and your death shall be quick and painless.

[MysticVegeta]

here is how I calculated the probabilty of running into your self:

Some factors are:

1) Immediate turns

I think thats the only thing that can cause running into oneself
lets further view that shall we?

When do you take immediate turns?

1) food spawns really close to the previous one

probabilty of that is 1/10 = 10 percent

also, when you take immediate turn because the food is spawned near it, what are the probabilty that when you take a double turn you hit yourself which means that your length is great. Great length probabilty is indeterminate because the length keeps on increasing so i would say the probability of you hitting yourself is somewhere around 5-10%

Which means winnning chances are 90-95%. Sorry if this was offensive to teh creator. did i win?

[Mr. T]

There is no 'winning,' only losing. As your snake grows larger, it becomes easier to get entangled in yourself and die.

[MysticVegeta]

I assume for the player that by that time i.e reaching a large large size, the player will be bored to death because he hadn't died once. So will automatically quit the program, thats a win for the user/game.

[Mr. T]

Getting bored of a classic game like snake is communism, Stalin.

[MysticVegeta]

Each game has a critical level where the person gets bored, no matter what game it is, XBox, ps2, pc, each game does. No offense but this game shows a little more symptons

[Mr. T]

Maybe if you have the attention span of a dead animal.

[Cervantes]

Can we cut back on the harshness, Pwned? MysticVegeta is only offering constructive criticism.

On another note:

Pwned wrote:

There is no 'winning,' only losing.

What if you fill the map up with yourself? You'd die the next step, but I think that should constitute a win.