Light Speed Snake by davesoft

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made by davesoft for LD34 (COMPO)
Snake, but with a twist. Rather than going Up, Down, Left and Right you move diagonally and use the 2 buttons to flip Horizontal or flip Vertical.

H and V on the keyboard do the same flip, also you could tab between the 2 buttons and press Space to activate them. Make the window larger to zoom in.

The diagonal movement gives an interesting side effect, only a keen-eyed player will deduce why some food and snakes look lighter than others.

Collect the green food to grow larger and survive as long as you can. Food and competition will be added regularly, to keep things interesting.

After you die your score can be uploaded to a free Buddy scoreboard tracker, and I'll update this post with any extreme scores I see :)

Whether you upload a score or not the game will continue adding food and snakes after death, until you press the restart button at the top left, or close the program.


Due to comments so far, I've halved the speed....
Completed and submitted in 12hours.

Top scorer is STILL (cmon people):
amras0000 {"Score":5878,"Difficulty":36,"Competition":6}


Post-submission change: CONVERTED TO 32BIT BY REQUEST 15/12/2015 18:32 UTC

Ratings

Coolness 50% 3
Overall 3.25 463
Audio 2.52 538
Fun 3.08 536
Humor 2.33 502
Innovation 3.17 470
Mood 2.81 589
Theme 3.64 554

Feedback

Anthony_y
12. Dec 2015 路 13:16 UTC
10/10 would snake again.
馃帳 davesoft
12. Dec 2015 路 13:24 UTC
Haha, thanks
AmmarAlsharekh
12. Dec 2015 路 16:56 UTC
I get 2428
good luck in your game
GameStudioLive
13. Dec 2015 路 00:43 UTC
Good Game, helped me overcome my fear of snakes!
OfficialProjectFantasy
13. Dec 2015 路 13:42 UTC
Hard, hard, so hard. Maybe you should have made the food one or two pixels bigger.
Martins
13. Dec 2015 路 14:37 UTC
Now thats almost a QWOP level of controll awkwardness :D Good fun.
Dooskington
14. Dec 2015 路 19:08 UTC
Woo! New high score! Fun game. It's a bit hard to see your snake among the others, though.
Rscar
14. Dec 2015 路 19:09 UTC
So challenging but I love it
qkerguelen
14. Dec 2015 路 19:11 UTC
Nice one :) I don't think that popups are the best options to display text but your game is cool :)
fakefrogsonly
14. Dec 2015 路 19:51 UTC
The movement was difficult to get to grips with as it was so different to anything else. Great presentation though!
icereci
14. Dec 2015 路 19:53 UTC
It's no snake, it's a worm!!
Like the game..
AzureAspect
14. Dec 2015 路 19:54 UTC
For some reason avira antivir thinks the game has virus o.o
Played it still (dont trust the antivirus programs!).
I had hard time figuring out how to play the game, my snake always turned wrong way (doh!)
Nice concept for two buttons!
Knowledge
14. Dec 2015 路 20:22 UTC
May you please make 32-bit version.
amras0000
14. Dec 2015 路 21:20 UTC
I've got to ditto OfficialProjectFantasy there. The food was incredibly tiny, to the point of it making more sense to just change directions randomly and hope for the best at the higher levels. Larger food pellets, or just a more zoomed-in grid would have helped. I loved the control scheme, though. Wreaks your brain a bit.

having the music open in my browser meant that it wasn't on loop, and I couldn't be bothered to restart it.

Significant bug: Difficulty doesn't reset on restart; the speed you had continues on into the next game.
馃帳 davesoft
14. Dec 2015 路 21:36 UTC
Wow, your score was great! Thanks for the feedback. Making the window larger zooms the board in.
I'll look into that bug, shouldn't be hard to fix.
amras0000 {"Score":5878,"Difficulty":36,"Competition":6}
馃帳 davesoft
14. Dec 2015 路 21:43 UTC
Fixed. Thanks amras0000.
qristofer
14. Dec 2015 路 22:09 UTC
Yes, I thought of QWOP as well. It's like snake on Nokia 3310, except every other direction, you must press the opposite. Very tricky! :) Nice!
AriaMK
15. Dec 2015 路 06:49 UTC
This was pretty neat and tricky!
I got 3763 I think and am pretty proud of that score :)
I like the music too but wished it was embedded in the game and would repeat. Maybe adding a slower snake to start out with to get the hang of it would make it easier to start.
pjimmy
15. Dec 2015 路 12:09 UTC
awesome! very creative, good job :D
馃帳 davesoft
15. Dec 2015 路 18:30 UTC
Thanks for the feedback guys, heartwarming stuff. I regret my 'external music' choice now... who cares about an extra 10mb these days right?

Converted to explicit 32bit by request of Knowledge (who made an awesome arduino game!)
Anachron
16. Dec 2015 路 00:11 UTC
Good for my timing... not sure the music fits but it adds to the trippy vibe
DeanoC
16. Dec 2015 路 09:43 UTC
Cool, hard to get used to it not being the snake controls. Guess too many hours on the original! Even with such simple controls, still found some 'tactics'!
GameDevExtreme
18. Dec 2015 路 18:35 UTC
Hard
Knowledge
19. Dec 2015 路 15:52 UTC
Thanks for porting but now it just prints "this program cannot be run in DOS-mode." and quits.
Hot Box Games
20. Dec 2015 路 18:43 UTC
Wow, playing snake diagonally was quite the challenge, fun little game, good job!
Would have been nice to see where I ranked on the leaderboards but oh well :)
馃帳 davesoft
20. Dec 2015 路 21:53 UTC
Thanks! I couldn't figure out how to read from Buddy in realtime before submitting.. still not entirely sure now. I think you're in about 9th place:
Jessica {"Score":2503,"Difficulty":13,"Competition":6}

Folk seem to either get 1000-1500ish or go nuts and play several times till they get 30000ish! Then there's a couple of nutters with 5000+ :D
phi
23. Dec 2015 路 12:22 UTC
That's really interesting! The music is cheaply implemented, but nice. The GUI is a bit weird, and it seemed to me that the game is slowed down by maximizing the window (is the framerate not synchronized with real time?). The controls are quite difficult to handle in the beginning, but it's still fun to play.
zenmumbler
24. Dec 2015 路 15:44 UTC
Your app has been pulled by Dropbox. I'm getting a "restricted content" page.
馃帳 davesoft
26. Dec 2015 路 16:39 UTC
Fixed! Seems dropbox don't like executables flying around :)
knason
28. Dec 2015 路 19:58 UTC
This was a challenging game, I liked it! I got a bit over 2500 I think and was happy about that. :) good job!