🐍 Snake C++ Edition

Welcome to my neon take on the classic Snake. It is a clean C++17 codebase that keeps the gameplay logic tidy and uses SFML 3 (falls back to SFML 2.5 automatically) for windowing, rendering, and input. The project has a full start screen, animated food, rainbow snake body, and an arcade HUD styled with the Press Start 2P font.

🎥 Quick Look

• The recording shows the start screen flow, dynamic snake colors, pulsing food animation, live score updates, and the restart loop after Game Over

✨ Features

• Start, Playing, and Game Over states with keyboard-driven flow (SPACE to start/restart, ESC to quit)
• Scoreboard and prompts rendered with an arcade-style font (with automatic system fallbacks)
• Snake head in soft green, segments cycling rainbow hues as you move and grow
• Food represented as a pulsing red circle that snaps to the 20 px grid
• Smooth 60 FPS loop, movement cadence driven by a configurable timer
• Dark gray background for an OLED-friendly vibe

🛠 Requirements

• C++17 toolchain (Clang, GCC, or MSVC)
• SFML 3 headers & libraries
  • Works out of the box with SFML 2.5 as well (find_package(SFML 3 ...) falls back to find_package(SFML 2.5 ...))
• CMake 3.10+

macOS setup (Homebrew)

brew install sfml

Fonts / Assets

• Arcade font lives in assets/fonts/PressStart2P.ttf
  • The runtime first looks for assets/fonts/PressStart2P.ttf (ideal: copy/rename the file there)
  • If missing, it tries the parent/build-relative paths and finally falls back to common system fonts (Arial, Courier New, Verdana)

🚀 Build & Run

mkdir -p build
cd build
cmake ..
cmake --build .
./snake

The executable looks for assets relative to both the project root and the build directory, so running from build/ works without extra copying.

🎮 Controls

Key	Action
Arrow keys	Change direction (opposite turns are ignored)
Space	Start from the title screen or restart after Game Over
Escape / Close window	Quit the game

🧱 Project Structure

Snake/
├── CMakeLists.txt
├── README.md
├── assets/
│   └── fonts/
│       └── PressStart2P.ttf
├── docs/
│   └── Registrazione Snake Game.mov
└── src/
    ├── Food.cpp
    ├── Game.cpp
    ├── Snake.cpp
    └── main.cpp

• Game.cpp orchestrates states, UI text, input, and rendering
• Snake.cpp owns movement logic and the dynamic color palette
• Food.cpp spawns, animates, and draws the pulsing food
• main.cpp simply boots Game::run()

🧭 Roadmap Ideas

• Sound effects and subtle background music
• Pause screen and settings menu

❤️ Thanks

Thanks for checking out Snake C++ Edition! If you try a tweak or add a feature, drop the recording in docs/—I’d love to see it.