Game-Snake

The classic snake game: a snake on a grid, heading one of four ways, eating
to grow and speeding up as it does, dying at a wall or on its own body.

This distribution is the game as an engine, a bot that plays it, a program
to play it in a terminal, and the raylib window of earlier releases, kept
and made optional.

    use Game::Snake;

    my $game = Game::Snake->new(seed => 'anything');
    $game->turn('up');
    $game->tick while $game->status ne 'finished';
    print $game->result->stringify, "\n";

Or, from a shell:

    snake
    snake --cols 20 --rows 14
    snake --watch --level 2
    snake --raylib

     Snake   score 60   length 9   speed 4/s
    +----------------------------+
    |                          ()|
    |                            |
    |        ::##############>>  |
    |                            |
    |                            |
    |                            |
    |                            |
    |                            |
    +----------------------------+
     arrows, wasd or hjkl steer; p pauses; q quits

The arrows, wasd or hjkl steer, p pauses and q quits. The board is fitted to
the window, at most 40 by 28. Term::ReadKey reads the keys; without it the
game says so, and snake --watch, which reads nothing, works anywhere.

The engine prints nothing, reads nothing and calls neither rand nor the
clock: every placement of food comes from the seed, so the same seed and the
same turns are the same game twice. The bot has two levels, greedy and
flood-fill, measured against each other over hundreds of games.

snake --raylib opens the window of release 0.11, drawn from the same sprite
sheet, when Raylib::FFI is installed. Raylib::FFI needs perl 5.38 or later;
the rest of this distribution needs 5.14.


INSTALLATION

To install this module, run the following commands:

	perl Makefile.PL
	make
	make test
	make install

SUPPORT AND DOCUMENTATION

After installing, you can find documentation for this module with the
perldoc command.

    perldoc Game::Snake
    perldoc Game::Snake::Terminal

You can also look for information at:

    RT, CPAN's request tracker (report bugs here)
        https://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Game-Snake

    Search CPAN
        https://metacpan.org/release/Game-Snake


LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

This software is Copyright (c) 2024 by LNATION.

This is free software, licensed under:

  The Artistic License 2.0 (GPL Compatible)