NSnake - a snake game

NSnake is a snake game for you terminal.

Download

• nsnake-3.0.0.tar.xz (signature)

Installation

Build using standard POSIX make tools, see INSTALL.md for more details.

make
make install

Documentation

See available manual pages:

• nsnake.6 (pdf)

Options

• -c: Disable colors, by default if the terminal is capable colors are enabled,
• -C color: Specify an alternate color between 0 and 8 (default 2),
• -n: Do not try to update score file,
• -s: Only display high score sorting by descending and exit,
• -v: Be more verbose,
• -w: Disable wall crossing. Can be used together with -s to show score with wall crossing disabled.

Gameplay

Movement keys:

• Up, k: move to up,
• Down, j: move to down,
• Left, h: move to left,
• Right, l: move to right,
• p: pause the game,
• c: change the color,
• q: quit the game.

Type nsnake -s to show the scores.

News

• (2021-06-17) NSnake is 10 years old! to celebrate its decade a major 3.0.0 version has been release.