Thread: Logics snake

Ok so i have looked for a lot of topics and code online, but i can't seem to find anything decent..

Would this be a correct logic to move the snake around in the game "Snake"? (the game is tile-based so not all 'parts' of the snake are the same: turns/head/tail/body have different graphics)

- Move the head one forward in the direction it's going
- if the head just went left or right, turn the second body part into a body part that's turning
- move all the other body parts, including tail to the position of the body part that was preceding it. Some body parts could become a part that is turning and vice versa.
- check if the part preceding the tail was a part that was turning and change the orientation of the tail accordingly


If this isn't clear i'll try to explain it somewhat different..

Choice of algorithms solely depends on data structures you use. That's the general rule!

So choose how you will store info about snake and its food. Remember choice of the data structures imparts complexity of algorithms and future extensibility of code.

I'm keeping my snake in a associative container (vector in C++).

I almost got it to work using the above logic, only that i work bottom-up:
first i calculate the new position of the tail using the preceding part of the tail,
then i calculate the new position of the part preceding the tail, etc. etc. untill i reach the head.
That way it was easier to program


This is solved for now

Glad to hear you got it working.

I made a snakes game in flash, several years ago. I ran into a similar issue. I finally had a EUREKA! moment when I realized the snake isn't "moving" at all. Essentially the snake "grows" by one section and immediately "shrinks" by one section, before the frame is drawn.

I had a similar problem trying to make a centipede clone. I don't remember what my solution was (or if I even found a good one).