goSnake

Snake Game In Go

Contents

• Structure
• Installation And Running
• Controls
• Configuration

Structure

• main.go

  Entry point of the game

• objects

  board, snake, food game objects

• config

  Config objects and a toml config parsing function

• color

  Helper package for adding color to the terminal

• routines

  Goroutines to capture user input and system calls

Installation And Running

1. Install the Go language with version found in go.mod

2. Clone the repository:

git clone github.com/Nicolas1st/goSnake

1. Download the dependencies:

go mod download

1. Go to the repository directory and run:

go run main.go

Controls

• Movement

  w - up

  a - left

  s - down

  d - right

• To quit press q

Configuration

1. Edit config.toml

2. Set the environment variable to the name of the file above,

   using the following command:

On Linux:

export gosnake_config_file=config.toml

On Windows:

set gosnake_config_file=config.toml

1. Run the game:

go run main.go