Here, have a snake game

Question

Million Snake games in the world. now, thanks to me needing to learn Java, there is 1 more. Have it

http://dropcanvas.com/ejjrr

Answer 1

Good game. It would be great if you add some settings in the next version because the snake is too fast :)

Answer 2

Nice! Need to make the play area or screen resizable. I can't fit the entire thing on my monitor. Makes it a bit difficult to play. Did you get your other issue figured out?

Answer 3

I did. it was less a problem with the code and more a problem of where I put the bit of code.. rookie mistake. spose plenty more of those in my future lol..

I played with the screen size ability back and forth and ultimately decided to lock it..

out of curiosity what is your screen resolution? I will put it on my laptop and make sure it fits more screen sizes.

the height is under 800, I was guessing that would be safe for most displays

Answer 4

I'm using a couple of old flat panel tv's at the moment. Until I get some new monitors. They're 720p 1360x768 I think. I'm on a mac so there is also the menu bar at the top of the screen that occupies a few pixels of real estate.

Answer 5

I considered settings for speed and colors.. still some things I want to add and some I want to tweak..

- add options for color and speed

- protect highscore so it can't be changed in the save.txt file

- possibly levels with varying difficulty

- move apples that spawn under the snake body

- maybe change the apple to a mouse that tries to get away (tossing the idea around my head, who knows)

- Computer control the snake when CPU is entered as player name (only ai I have ever done was a pong paddle, but I think I can make a snake try to get an apple while avoiding itself and walls)

- Custom title bar icon and program icon

A few things I want to clean up before I call it done and move on to my next project. Years ago I made a in Gamemaker. I feel I have learned enough doing Snake to bring my game over to the Java world.

Thanks for the input! Any other ideas, bring them on. Learning is what I enjoy and the only thing that hinders my learning is lack of ideas.

Answer 6

Oh yea, definitely too big for that. I believe overall dimension is around 640x790 .. My plan was keep the height under 800, I didn't take tv's into account.. I will have to come up with a solution.