Hello and welcome to the home of the ncurses snake game written in neovim by one enthusiast in his spare time!
- Speed
- Performance
- Beauty
- Portability
- Tries to be POSIX-compliant
- "Window" system
- Game itself
- Scoreboard
- Help window
- Log windows
- Terminal options
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Game relies on the
If You use MacOS You can install newcurses with homebrew simply by
brew install ncurses
Short answer: It depends.
For example, if You are using Ubuntu You can install newcurses and g by
sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev clang
If You say I use Arch btw often, You can try
sudo pacman -S ncurses g
If Your distro isn't mentioned here, try to use google:
how to install ncurses in *put Your distro name here*
how to install g in *put Your distro name here*
how to get cmake running on *put Your distro name here*
Enter desired directory and run
git clone https://github.com/Dolfost/snake-cpp
cd snake-cpp
It will create the directory with name snake-cpp
and enter it. Then You have to compile the game.
To build the game You can:
cmake -B build; cmake --build build
./build/snake --build-help-pad
It will create the game executable snake
in the build/
direcotry and build the help pad for current terminal.
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Open the terminal window not smaller than 42 lines by 80 columns
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To start the game You can execute
./build/shanke
in the git directory root.
If You are new to the game (probably You are), I recommend You to start game with the
--help
or-h
option, so You can get used to it../build/snake --help
If You find any bugs or unexpected behaviors or just want to contribute to the snake-cpp, You are welcome at the issues tab.