nibbler

A simple recreation of the classic Snake game employing dynamically loaded visualization libraries

Usage

./nibbler [-h] width height

-h enable hard mode - snake accelerates

• wsad or UpDownLeftRight
• Esc - exit
• Space - pause
• 123 - select graphics module

Dependencies

• clang++
• ncurses
• SDL
• SDL_ttf
• SDL_image

Build

make; make dylib

On MacOS a simple script has been included to install dependencies through brew. The install script also supports linux systems using apt

Install with : ./install.sh

Graphics Module Interface

Each graphics module is seperately compiled as a shared object and loaded dynamically during runtime. The game makes calls to the graphics library using the following class interface:

#ifndef IRENDER_HPP
# define IRENDER_HPP

class IRender {
	public:
		IRender(void) {};
		virtual void init(void) = 0;
		virtual char getInput(void) = 0;
		virtual void destroy(void) = 0;
		virtual void render(void) = 0;
		virtual ~IRender(void) {};
};

#endif

A two dimensional char array representing the game state is made available to the library to draw the board.