Snake Game

A classic Snake game coded in C using SDL3, featuring retro-style/user-responsive graphics and smooth gameplay.

Features

• Classic Snake Gameplay: Control a growing snake to eat apples and avoid collisions
• Super responsive graphics: Works on every screen, it calculates every object's size based on the user's screen size
• Retro Graphics: 640x480 resolution with a tiled, retro-inspired visual style
• Smooth Controls: WASD or arrow key movement with collision prevention

Future

• Sounds effects & music: I plan to add SDL3_mixer for sound effects and music, for better user experience
• Difficulties: Bigger and smaller boards... faster and slower snake... etc!
• And much more!

Controls

Menu

• SPACE: Start the game
• ESCAPE: Exit the game

Gameplay

• W / UP ARROW: Move up
• S / DOWN ARROW: Move down
• A / LEFT ARROW: Move left
• D / RIGHT ARROW: Move right
• ESCAPE: Exit the game

Game Over

• SPACE: Restart the game

Screenshots

Requirements

• SDL3: Main graphics and input library
• SDL3_ttf: Text rendering library
• C Compiler: GCC, Clang, or MSVC
• Font File: TTF font file for text rendering

Building

Prerequisites

Make sure you have SDL3 and SDL3_ttf installed on your system:

# Ubuntu/Debian
sudo apt-get install libsdl3-dev libsdl3-ttf-dev

# macOS (with Homebrew)
brew install sdl3 sdl3_ttf

# Windows
# Download SDL3 and SDL3_ttf development libraries from libsdl.org or through vcpkg package manager (recommended)