Show HN: 4snakes – a classic Snake game but with 4 snakes

Re:Show HN: 4snakes – a classic Snake game but with 4 snakes by Jeff_Brown on Saturday October 19, 2019 @12:29PM (#21299264)

This makes me want to try a version where you control two snakes at once.

The steering interface is much harder than the traditional 4-direction version. (Not saying that's good or bad, just saying it.)

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Re:Show HN: 4snakes – a classic Snake game but with 4 snakes by JamesSwift on Sunday October 20, 2019 @02:11PM (#21305891)

I wrote a simultaneous control version a long time ago (very naive game implementation, please forgive the code): https://github.com/J-Swift/clj-multi-snake

Its pretty difficult to play actually. I find the best method is to control one in a circle while capturing with the other.

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Re:Show HN: 4snakes – a classic Snake game but with 4 snakes by Jeff_Brown on Sunday October 20, 2019 @04:45PM (#21307000)

Interesting. Now I"m wondering how to motivate someone to use both of them. Maybe two different kinds of food, specific to each snake?

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Re:Show HN: 4snakes – a classic Snake game but with 4 snakes by JamesSwift on Sunday October 20, 2019 @10:28PM (#21308905)

It has that feature already : )

3/4 of the food are for either snake, 1/4 is for a particular snake.

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Re:Show HN: 4snakes – a classic Snake game but with 4 snakes by xojoc on Saturday October 19, 2019 @01:40PM (#21299673)

It shouldn't be too hard... if you want to try, you can find the source here: https://github.com/xojoc/games2d

Yeah, the 2-direction version is a little different than usual, but I wanted to try something new.

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Re:Show HN: 4snakes – a classic Snake game but with 4 snakes by bargle0 on Sunday October 20, 2019 @01:51PM (#21305739)

The snake game bundled with DOS 5 let you play with two snakes. It was very difficult to play solo. IIRC the intent was two players on the same keyboard.

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