Coding Challenge #57 - Snake

This challenge is to build your own version of the classic game snake.

Many of us think of snake as one of the first games that was available on a mobile phone (it appeared on the Nokia 6110 in 1997). But snake goes back much further than that. It’s heritage dates back to 1976, with the first version of what was then called Worm written in 1978.

These days there are thousands of versions and it’s available for just about any device you care to try.

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The Challenge - Building Snake

Snake is a simple game. The player controls a snake which move around the playing grid at a fixed speed. The goal is to eat food that appears at random locations on the grid.

For each item of food eaten the snake becomes longer and the player scores points. The game ends when the snake hits the edge of the game grid or it’s own body.

Step Zero

In this step, pick the programming language and development environment you’re going to use. Consider trying something different - this would be a great project to try a frontend stack if you’re a backend developer and vice versa.

If you’re from a data engineering or site-reliability engineering background you could leverage your knowledge of Python with PyGame or Go with Ebitenegine. Rustaceans can check out?are we game yet ?for useful crates.

Snake is relatively simple and as such, it’s a great platform for learning a new technology, or programming language.

Continued...

The steps for the rest of this Coding Challenge are detailed on the website as Build Your Own Snake Game .