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LD40 - Snake by Torhaq

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made by Torhaq for LD 40 (JAM)

Here is my game for the LD40 Jam entry: Snake

It's an small snake-like game. The gameplay is pretty simple: Eat fruits (apple) to earn points. But, be carefull, the more your eat, the more you are growing.

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Controls

  • Left and right arrow to turn
  • "Fire button" to give a boost to the snake

(A gamepad should work fine as well)

Gameplay

  • If your head touch your body, you lose. (the trees are deadly too).
  • The walls doesn't "kill" you but bounce you, so be aware of the angle.
  • To help you, a "pill" will sometime spawn to reduce your body part if you pick it up.

Conclusion

I had many ideas, but not enough time to implement them (weather system with night mode, more fruits and bonus, multiplayer splitted screen). Maybe later...

Thanks all, have fun, and most important, don't hesitate to give me your feedback.

HTML5 (web) http://games.creative-innovations.fr/snake/
Windows http://games.creative-innovations.fr/snake/ld40-snake-win-x64.zip
Original URL https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/40/ld40-snake

Ratings

Overall 748th 3.25⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Fun 758th 3.091⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Innovation 1132th 2.136⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Theme 448th 3.568⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Graphics 353th 3.841⭐ 24🧑‍⚖️
Audio 536th 2.976⭐ 23🧑‍⚖️
Humor 856th 2.267⭐ 17🧑‍⚖️
Mood 928th 2.75⭐ 20🧑‍⚖️
Given 2🗳️ 2🗨️

Feedback

ZakrulNizam
05. Dec 2017 · 01:10 UTC
WOW!I would like to say that this game really accurate to the theme!
Good Job!
Phyrsos
05. Dec 2017 · 01:12 UTC
Interresting mechanic of movement and I like the way the snake's bouncing against walls ! Sadly gamefeel is not here and the game is quite hard to handle
Matthew Roelle
05. Dec 2017 · 01:15 UTC
Hey we both did snake games! Haha great job :) I loved the graphics
Mac Dragoness
05. Dec 2017 · 01:16 UTC
**Fun:** Pretty fun to play! Although the controls are a bit awkward.

**Innovation:** Gameplay taken straight out from classic snake game.

**Theme:** Suits the theme pretty well!

**Graphics:** The game's strongest aspect. The game has really decent graphics!

**Audio:** There is nothing to say about though.

**Humor:** Not much humor.

**Mood:** No mood.

Overall, I think the game is pretty decent. Although the length of the game is pretty short, the game is nice & fun to play! :)
dukeaccent
05. Dec 2017 · 01:17 UTC
If you die and click to try again, the snake doesn't move. And the snake's speed is maybe a bit too fast for how slowly it turns. But this looks and sounds fun. This could be a really nice snake clone with some tweaks.
professor
05. Dec 2017 · 01:19 UTC
Great innovation on a classic game! I really enjoyed the graphics and the audio effects in this one. The snake was a bit hard to control, but the presentation was excellent. Thanks for creating this game.
rodel77
05. Dec 2017 · 01:23 UTC
Very Cool & Fun, and even funnier when you figure out that you can bounce in the walls!

And very nice GUI design too!
alobker
14. Dec 2017 · 16:12 UTC
Looks great and is fun to play. Well done!
tuzepoito
26. Dec 2017 · 13:25 UTC
An interesting take on the classic snake game, but as others said, the controls are a bit awkward. When the snake gains acceleration, it feels like it's on an ice surface. I am not sure of the purpose of the "boost" command since the snake is already fast enough. Also, for some reason the game felt a bit slow on my laptop, even though the graphics didn't look too demanding for a graphic card.
Rialgar
26. Dec 2017 · 23:34 UTC
The cool thing about the original snake to me were the precise controls that allowed for insane tricks when mastered. Snatching the apple from that 2 width spot and returning successfully. Sadly, this is completely absent from this game.

I liked the art and sound, though. The light cone was a nice touch.
mgpxl
27. Dec 2017 · 03:47 UTC
Very nice looking snake-like game. I also liked the bouncing off of walls and pills to reduce size. However, the snake's movement is a little bit slow.
TheMonsterFromTheDeep
27. Dec 2017 · 09:02 UTC
A nice little snake game. The art is good, although I do believe that the biting sound effect could perhaps be more effective -- it just doesn't quite seem to be the "right" sound effect for the snake model in the game.

My main problem gameplay-wise is that the bounce angle is not particularly intuitive, and I think that this is because it sort of relies on what the player is doing at the time of collision (i.e. where they are trying to steer).
jk5000
27. Dec 2017 · 09:28 UTC
The idea is simple and good. The graphics is really cute, and the sound effects is okay. But for me the game was way too difficult. Overall a well made LD game.
almost
27. Dec 2017 · 10:03 UTC
The game isn't very complicated, but it looks pretty and it's challenging once the snake starts speeding up. I epected to bounce off of trees but barely touching a tree seemed to instant kill me.
FuriousWitch
27. Dec 2017 · 11:22 UTC
Nice job on this one :) Great graphics and nice mechanics. The game increase in difficulty very fast though so may maybe make it more gradual than that. Also, decreasing the snake dimensions could make it more manageable to play. My advice is to make the speed related to eating the fruit not just the time factor because that is what I felt; that it was just getting faster regardless of the snake eating anything.
Great job:)