snakeGame$

Snake game is a perfect story to be tell as a composition of Observables

• Own implementation from Redux (not robux as Redux is but easy to reason about)
• Javascript modules
• Canvas API
• Composing events using Observables

Features!

• The snake can be controlled by arrows
• Snake food will be placed ramdonly on screen
• Snake food has a random timeout between 4 and 10 seconds
• Snake grows longer by one unit after eating the food
• Eating one piece of food earns one point
• If the snake hits a boundary, the size of the game area reduces by 113 pixels and the direction of the snake reverses
• The game is over when the snake contacts itself
• The dimensions of food and one segment of the snake are 16 pixels
• The starting game area is 800px X 800px
• A play again should be appear when the game is over
• in the subsequent games, if the socres is greater than the previous one, change the color of the score/food
• Eating special food gains 9 points and elongates the snake by 2 units
• Special food must be any shape than a square
• It must fit in a 28 pixels box
• It is a random color
• Special food timeout interval lies between 1 and 5 seconds

Installation

Requires Node.js v4+ to run.

Install the dependencies and devDependencies and start the server. (just express as a dependencie)

$ npm install -d
$ npm start

127.0.0.1:8000

License

MIT