CLI Snake

A classic Snake game developed in C++ to run in terminal. The game is built using the ncurses library to handle the terminal display and input. The game is designed to be lightweight and with a simple interface and controls.

Game Elements

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1. Generation of random game sets or events
   • The apples are generated at random (uniformly distributed) around the map.
   • mt19937 pseudo-random generator is used.
2. Data structures for storing game status
   • Class Snake, will store all the properties of the current snake.
   • Class SaveAndLoad, for save and load methods.
3. Dynamic memory management
   • new operator is used to allocate memory on the free store for Snake and SaveAndLoad objects.
   • delete operator is called to restore the memory allocated when the game ends.
4. File input/output
   • The pause menu provides the option to save current game status.
   • At start menu, the saved game can be loaded from the log.txt file, and continue to play.
   • After the game ends, the score will be recorded in the leaderboard.txt file.
   • Files are saved under log directory.

GitHub Repository

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iltlo/Snake

Course Group Project of HKU ENGG1340

C++

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