~ Classic Snake ~

[Achilles]

Classic Snake v1.1

New with version 1.1

• Keep track of high score
• More equal scoring (e.g. Faster gets more, slower gets less, etc)
• Fancier "game over" screen (many thanks UEZ)
• Few changes in GUI to make it a bit more professional
• Check that screen size fits before updating GUI
• Hotkey for pause to make pausing more accessible
• Bug with eating an apple when the snake is shorter than apple weight
• Bug with eating two consecutive apples

Download here: Snake 1.1.zip

Previous number of downloads: 143

I have lots of ideas for updates; however I wanted to release a fully working version (I hope; let me know if you find bugs of course) while I had one. Here's some of my ideas (feel free to add):

• Mazes! (Maybe even a custom maze editor so the user can make their own)
• Different languages (way the code is this would be very easy to do, if someone wants to help out here that would be great)

Edited January 20, 2010 by Achilles

[Jjo]

Nice little game, online high scores would be great.

[Achilles]

  On 1/5/2010 at 4:32 PM, 'Jjo said:

Nice little game, online high scores would be great.

I might do that.. Although first I would need to make it so no matter what way you're playing you can get about the same score with the same amount of work..

[Mat]

You should definitely check whether the GUI will fit the screen. Even on 'american'... Other than that, Pause and resume options would be great.

[Achilles]

  On 1/6/2010 at 1:11 PM, 'Mat said:

You should definitely check whether the GUI will fit the screen. Even on 'american'... Other than that, Pause and resume options would be great.

Wow.. It's very surprising that I didn't think of checking screen size, especially since it will be very easy to implement. Thanks for that idea.

Just click the screen to pause and then if you hit one of the arrow keys it will resume (or click the screen again).

[Mat]

Its surprisingly hard to click the screen when my right hand is tapping away manically trying to control an uberfast snake... I get the idea though. Perhaps a little accelerator would do the trick, end is a good option there.

[dantay9]

Nice little script. I like it a lot.

[Hawkwing]

It has an error if you eat the apple before at least 5 parts of the snake appear, also, what happens if you swallow two apples in a row and they are each supposed to grow you 5 spaces, does that work?

[Achilles]

  On 1/6/2010 at 9:01 PM, 'Mat said:

Its surprisingly hard to click the screen when my right hand is tapping away manically trying to control an uberfast snake... I get the idea though. Perhaps a little accelerator would do the trick, end is a good option there.

Ok, I'll add a hotkey... A long time ago I was working on full _GUICtrlHotkey_* UDF I might pull that up and let the user choose their own hotkey.

  On 1/7/2010 at 2:15 AM, 'dantay9 said:

Nice little script. I like it a lot.

Thanks!

  On 1/7/2010 at 5:37 PM, 'Hawkwing said:

It has an error if you eat the apple before at least 5 parts of the snake appear, also, what happens if you swallow two apples in a row and they are each supposed to grow you 5 spaces, does that work?

I know the second you mentioned, but the first was news to me. Thanks for mentioning that.

@All: I've added your suggestions to my to-do list and will get on those as soon as I have time.

[Mat]

If you want an example of using a hotkey control then I used it in my settings dialog in THE AutoIt Tool, the code for converting etc is at the bottom, including some code for converting to the send style syntax for HotkeySet.

_GUICtrlHotkey_* sounds like a fun project, fairly simple as well (by controls standards that is).

[Achilles]

Updated

See first post for details.

[UEZ]

I wondered why I get "only" one explosion when the game is over! But you linked the amount of explosions to reached score.

The higher the score the more explosion can be seen!

Nice implementation!

UEZ

[stinson6016]

Really cool

[lordicast]

Error:

\Snake_1.1\GameOver.au3(123,101) : ERROR: _GDIPlus_BrushSetSolidColor(): undefined function.

_GDIPlus_BrushSetSolidColor($explosion_coordinate[$n][$o + 6], $explosion_coordinate[$n][$o + 7])

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^

\Snake_1.1\Snake.au3(452,19) : ERROR: AdlibUnRegister(): undefined function.

AdlibUnRegister()

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^

\Snake_1.1\Snake.au3(453,32) : ERROR: AdLibRegister(): undefined function.

AdLibRegister('_Move', $speed)

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^

Snake_1.1\Snake.au3 - 3 error(s), 0 warning(s)

EDIT INFO: AutoitVersion 3.3.0.0

Seems I dont have Adlibregister or Adlibunregister is it part of UDF?

Edited February 9, 2010 by lordicast

[AdmiralAlkex]

  On 2/9/2010 at 4:57 PM, 'lordicast said:

EDIT INFO: AutoitVersion 3.3.0.0

Seems I dont have Adlibregister or Adlibunregister is it part of UDF?

No all 3 were added in later versions of AutoIt. You should update to latest stable or something like that.

[Hawkwing]

A few suggestions

• Use pause key for pausing, or let user select hotkey
• Option to use wsad keys instead of arrows
• Have it pause if you click on a menu while playing
• Have score be relative to field size as well as time and speed

Edited February 10, 2010 by Hawkwing

[Hawkwing]

If you are still working on this, I would also suggest adding in wsad functionality, and changing how the hotkeys work, so I can use the arrow keys for other stuff when the Snake window isn't selected.