SSSNAKE(1)

🌸 NAME 🌸

okay so bestie, this is sssnake(1) — the classic snake game on your terminal that can run in autopilot. No cap, it's giving retro main character energy. 🐍✨

🩷 SYNOPSIS 🩷

sssnake [OPTION]...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

sssnake is literally the classic snake game, written in c, and it's capable of running on autopilot. 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -m MODE, –mode=MODE — the mode the program runs in. MODE can be:
  • normal — the default mode where you control the snake 🎮
  • arcade — a board with specific dimensions, and the speed increases when the snake eats 🍓
  • autopilot — the game plays itself 🤖
  • screensaver — same as autopilot, but the game restarts every time the snake dies 🔁
• -l STYLE, –look=STYLE — the style for how the snake, food, walls, and junk look. STYLE can be:
  • fancy — default mode 🎀
  • full — the snake is made out of full blocks 🧱
  • ascii — every thing is made out of ascii characters 🔤
  • dots — the snake is made out of little square dots 🔹
• -s NUMBER, –speed=NUMBER — speed of the game, from 1 to 20. (Default: 1 ). ⚡
• -x DIMENSION, –maxX=DIMENSION — define the width of the board (minimum value of DIMENSION is 5). A single unit is equal to two terminal columns. 📏
• -y DIMENSION, –maxY=DIMENSION — define the height of the board (minimum value of DIMENSION is 5). A single unit is equal to one terminal row. 📐
• -j NUMBER, –junk=NUMBER — add random blocks of junk, levels from 1 to 10. (Default: 0 ). 🗑️
• -z, –score — shows the size of the snake at any time. 📊
• -t, –teleport — allows the snake to teleport between borders. 🌀
• –try-hard=NUMBER — makes the snake unkillable in the autopilot/screensaver mode. For now there are two options (algorithms):
  • “–try-hard 1” is cpu efficient, good for big boards. 🧠
  • “–try-hard 2” uses more cpu, it reaches the food faster and produces a cleaner board. 🔥
• –short-path=ALGORITHM — lets you set the algorithm used to find the shortest path. There are three algorithms available:
  • astar: A* using a simple heuristic, it tends to make a lot of turns (default). 🌟
  • bfs: Breadth-first search, it produces straight paths. 📏
  • asfixed: A* with a heuristic that puts extra cost to turns, the paths produced are a middle ground between the other two algorithms. ⚖️
• -h, –help — print help message.. 🆘

🎮 CONTROLS 🎮

🕹️ NORMAL/ARCADE: 🕹️

• wasd, hjkl, up down left right — basic directional controls. 🧭
• spacebar — pause game. ⏸️
• q — quit game. 🚪

🤖 AUTOPILOT/SCREENSAVER: 🤖

• + — increases the speed of the game. ⏩
• - — decreases the speed of the game. ⏪
• spacebar — pause game. ⏸️
• q — quit game. 🚪

🌈 SCREENSAVER: 🌈

• Any key except +,- and spacebar — quit game. 💀

🫶 AUTHORS 🫶

Written by Angel Jumbo(anarjumb@protonmail.com). 💌

🐛 BUGS 🐛

Submit bug reports online at: <https://github.com/AngelJumbo/issues> 🙈

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mwah 💋 bestie, that's the whole page — this SSSNAKE(1) manual is Ver. 0.3.0, dated September 29, 2022. periodt. 👑