Questions tagged [snake]
Snake is the common name for a video game concept where the player maneuvers a line which grows in length, with the line itself being a primary obstacle. Use this tag when asking questions relating to such games.
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Designing Snake AI
I'm new to this gamedev stackechange but have used the math and cs sites before.
So, I'm in a competition to create AI for a snake that will compete with four other snakes in 5 minute rounds where ...
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How to find a safe path for an AI snake?
I have been working on a game in which a player can compete with a snake ai to get the most apples. The current path finding technique i use (A* Pathfinding) works fine. But I am struggling with ...
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Snake movement in monogame
Noobie here...
I've started learning monogame development and currently working on a simple snake game. I'm having trouble with the snake's movement, I figured I could make it tile-based movement but ...
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Tile based smooth snake movement
while making my own Snake implementation I decided to use delta time for smoothing movement on screen. The problem is that before Snake was moving fixed amount of pixels every frame, but now when ...
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How to create a grid movement like the oldschool snake game?
I got 2 problems with the game,
I don't know how make my GameObject (snake head) move based in a grid for some reason I don't know it moves freely on the screen.
The tail keep instantiating above ...
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Snake AI - Is a Hamiltonian approach valid for all grid sizes?
So, as has been done many times before, I am designing an AI that can play Snake as effectively as possible. It didn't take me long to find this extremely useful thread here: How to find a safe path ...
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2D snake game ( how to rotate snake's head with movement ?)
I want to know:
how to rotate snake's head with movement
how to make tail prefabs (body) follows head direction.
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Snake game made in processing
I have been working on this snake game for a few days, and I have the basics down, but I was wondering if anyone could help me figure out the tail. I need it to follow the body, as it does in the ...
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How to make snake movement smooth not grid based like slither.io snake?
I try to find the right formula to mimic the smooth non-grid movement of the slither.io snake.
I can do it manually to save each point the "head" movement went and do some interpolation in between ...
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Javascript snake game, configurable section distance
I want to make a snake game.
In a classic game the snake moves in 4 directions, I want the player to move in all directions by mouse input, similar to slither.io
Right now the tail section changes ...
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Having trouble with constructors and the deque class [closed]
I've recently been trying to make a better version of my previous remake of the classic snake game by implementing data encapsulation and abstraction. I also decided to replace my horrible choice of a ...
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How would a sprite spawn more sprites under themself every second?
I am making a snake game and am having trouble to make the snake go longer, at the moment when I run the program, I just have the snake head eating apples. But I want the snake head(30x30) to spawn ...
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Input reaction is slow in two player snake game
i'm trying to make a two player console snake game. One of the snakes is controled by 'wasd' and other 'uhjk'. I have two function to get the keys getKEYS1() and <...
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Strange flashing cube bug in snake game
I'm trying to make a simple snake game in C and OpenGL, and I have this at the moment, which runs almost perfectly:
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How to reset snake in javafx game?
I am making snake in javafx, I have completed my game, and I am trying to add a reset button in my game. When I click the reset key (ENTER), the game should reset, but the arraylist that stores the ...
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Snake game steering with Java FX
I am currently trying to make a snake game with Java FX, I read several posts about it and I understand on theory how to move the snake body (for each part of the snake reference the previous one and ...
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Pygame moving rectangle
I am coding a snake game with pygame for Python 3.6 and wonder how I can make the snake move all the time, changing direction when buttons right, down, left and up pressed, like in the real snake game....
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Snake game - Snake Collision
So I am making a snake game as final assignment for semester 1 of my game dev study.
We have to write it in C# in Visual Studio 2015. I am using the .NET 3.5 framework.
So basically how my snake ...
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Snake Game body rotation
I am currently trying to make a snake game with Unity. I'm a beginner at C# so I decided to make a game that seemed easy. With the help of this tutorial How to make Snake in Unity (Complete Tutorial) �...
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Some objects only rendering half of the screen in snake game
I'm trying to make a basic snake game with OpenGL. I hold all the game object locations in a matrix called MAP. And when i render them, i operate the location info ...
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Distance between moving, rotated rectangles in snake game
I am trying to implement basic Snake game with movement based on timestep. For now I've got something along those lines:
Update function:
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How to make 3D snake with procedural mesh in Unity
Im currently learning Unity3D and I would like to recreate the old Nokia game "Snakes" (example video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXg3jVG-tXs&ab_channel=aantv, play it at 1:30 and ...
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Smooth out movement of the snake in a 2d Snake game
I am working on a 2-D snake game in C++ with the SFML library. I would like to smooth out the movement of my snake as it looks extremely choppy currently.
How the Snake moves
The snake is made up of a ...
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AI for 1v1 snake
I've got a task for job application to create a snake AI that can defeat their basic AI. Searching in this topic I've found that it's very similar to Tron and it's solved mostly by minimax algorithm. ...
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how to join the body of snake in 2D snake game
i'm making a snake game in javaScript from scratch. The problem is that the snake looks disjoint(see image). How can I connect the body(rectangles) of the snake?
here is the code of drawing snake:
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How can I move the snake toward the mouse cursor?
I am making a snake game. I have got it to animate. I just want it to follow the mouse pointer. I am able to find the mouse cursor position. I am also to get my snake to move to the right. What I want ...
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How to make the snake bodyParts follow same places and directions as the player on a curved surface?
I try to make a game like the classic snake game but on a round ground (Earth). On a plane, the script works well, but when i moved it on a sphere, the bodyparts (prefabs), are not working good as you ...
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How to randomize all the colors to different colors every time the snake eats and grows?
I'm new to python and am making snake for a project/ I'm not sure how to randomize all the colors to different colors every time the snake eats and grows. I've looked up multiple things and nothing ...
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