Sanke

A simple snake game in the terminal. No third party libraries needed.

Demo

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How it works

The program makes the terminal use non-canonical input and output by using termios. Then it updates and prints a 2D character array containing the board borders, snake, and food. Before terminating, the program restores canonical mode.

Info

Only tested with the combination of

• GCC
• Linux
• x86 CPU