PySnakey Documentation

Introduction

Traditional snake game written in pygame with Python 3.11.9

Instructions

1) Create a python environment: python -m venv NAME_OF_VENV. 2) Activate the environment: source NAME_OF_VENV\bin\activate or NAME_OF_VENV/Scripts/activate depending on OS 3) Install the required dependancies: pip install -r requirements.txt. 4) Start the game: python snake_game.py 5) Enjoy!

Features

• Currently single player mode
• Main menu with key bindings options

• Bottom section is left unreachable for the consumables per level and the level itself

• Different game modes (Story mode and high-score)

  • High score

    

  • Story mode

    • Level 1 - No constraints, objective: 5 food
    
    • Level 2 - Blocked Borders, objective: 10 food
    

• Screenshots when losing the game to see what happened and what to changed.

  • Stored under parent directory of the script running, under src -> assets -> screenshots -> date_and_time.png

  • Example image:

    

Game modes

• High score mode
  • Single mode where the user plays alone and the goal is to reach the highest points
  • Each food is worth 10 points
  • Stationary speed across this mode
  • Avoid clashing to itself as the game will end
  • Screenshot of the lost game would be recorded under src -> assets -> screenshots
• Story mode with levels
  • Each level has unique goals like number of food items to consume
  • The higher the level, the higher the difficulty (not yet developed)
    • Speed can increase (maybe add items to increase speed ?)
    • Food items could have times
    • Varying level dimensions (?)
    • Obstacles in higher levels (?)