Snake in rust using ncurses

The game is playable

run with

cargo run

Keybinds

hjkl or arrow keys for movement

esc or p to pause

Screenshot

Click the image for asciinema

Todo 🚧

• Add a way to change the snake speed
  • Make a ui to switch the snake speed
  • Interal implementation of the snake speed
• Implement Highscore System
  • Make the ui
  • Internal Implementation

Bugs 🐛

• Snake going through the walls
• Food spawning in the walls
• Remove all the logging in the ui
• Pausing delayed if esc is pressed but not if p is pressed.

Maybe in the future

• Autoplay the game using a simple pathfinding algorithm (to show on r/unixporn of course 🤡)

Notes

A few notes about the complexity of the game and how I should improve the game

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The complexity of the program is O(n) every tick (time which changes relative to the speed)

However the place, I can improve is the redrawing of the game

As of commit f9be68e the game redraws the total board and the total snake every tick.

I think this can be improved by only drawing the parts of the snake and the board when needed