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Your snake game doesn't even have food for the snake to eat? The snake just grows without eating, until the head collides with the tail somewhere? Pssh, amate
by yebyen 8y ago
Your snake game doesn't even have food for the snake to eat? The snake just grows without eating, until the head collides with the tail somewhere? Pssh, amateur hour...
/s (Just kidding this is actually super cool.)
- amenghra 8y agoIt's Tron-ish (the post says Tron, where did you read snake?) :P
- reificator 8y agoIt's a fair assumption to make, as the difference between Tron and Snake is effectively just single player vs multiplayer.
- derrasterpunkt 8y agoNo it isn't. In TRON you leave a trail behind. In Snake, you grow as you eat and drag your body along the path you crawled. TRON's trail is static, Snakes body is dynamic.
- reificator 8y agoI said effectively. > TRON's trail is static, Snakes body is dynamic. And that difference only exists to support the single player vs multiplayer dynamic. If Snake left a Tron tail then it would be a very short, unfun experience. If Tron didn't leave a permanent trail then matches would last too long.
- hacksoi 8y ago> And that difference only exists to support the single player vs multiplayer dynamic Maybe the single player vs multiplayer difference only exists to support the different tail mechanics.
- crtasm 8y agoIn the middle ground, NIBBLES.BAS was snake and had a competitive 2 player mode plus a selection of levels/arenas.
- lucb1e 8y agoSo then OP created single-player Tron instead of Snake?
- yebyen 8y agoWoops... I skimmed the article and watched the 30MB GIF
- collinmanderson 8y agoTron is a great game for fitting into a very small space. Back in high school I spent a lot of time optimizing Tron on the TI-82 to fit in as few bytes as possible. It looks like I got it down to 152 bytes: (only about 80 bytes of actual Z80 assembly code) https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/227/22747.html https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/227/22747.htm...
- wvh 8y agoMy first thought was to make random sectors of the first hard drive the "food"... For better or for worse, this stuff really brings me back to my teens. Nice job!
- exikyut 8y agoYou just reminded me of an old game that made "snow" for the screen by copying a specific location on the disk into video memory.