Hermit/fixtures/snake_cpp/README.md

Snake Game

A classic terminal-based Snake game written in C++17.

Features

• Smooth snake movement using POSIX terminal I/O
• WASD or Arrow keys for movement
• Food spawning and snake growth
• Wall and self-collision detection
• Score tracking
• Pause functionality (P key)
• Clean terminal rendering

Build

make

This compiles snake.cpp with optimization level O2 and C++17 standard.

Run

./snake

Controls

Key	Action
W / ↑	Move Up
S / ↓	Move Down
A / ←	Move Left
D / →	Move Right
P	Pause/Resume
Q	Quit

Game Rules

• Eat the * food to grow and score points (+10 per food)
• Avoid hitting the walls #
• Avoid colliding with your own body o
• The snake moves continuously

Requirements

• GCC/G++ with C++17 support
• POSIX-compliant system (Linux, macOS)
• Terminal with ANSI escape support