SnakeGame

Basic rules of the game

• The size of the board is 40 x 40 or larger.
• The snake starts at the center of the board, moving north (upward).
• The snake moves at a constant speed.
• The snake moves only north, south, east, or west.
• An apple appears at a random location (but the location where the snake can reach).
  • There is always exactly one apple visible at any given time.
• When the snake "eats" (runs into) an apple, it gets longer.
• The game continues until the snake "dies".
  • The snake dies by either
    1. running into the edge of the board.
    2. running into its own body.
• Once the snake dies, the final score is calculated based on the number of apples eaten by the snake.

Basic rule of the dual player mode

• Two players (player 1 and 2) concurrently play the Snake game on a single board
• The size of the board is 40 x 80 or larger.
• The player 1’s snake starts at the left-top corner of the board, moving south (downward).
• The player 2’s snake starts at the right-bottom corner of the board, moving north (upward).
• Apples appear at a random location (but the location where one of the snakes can reach).
  • There are always exactly two apples visible at any given time.
• The game continues until one of the snakes dies.
  • The snakes die by either (1) running into the edge of the board, (2) running into its own body, or (3) running into another snake’s body.
• Once one snake dies, the alive snake wins the game (score is not calculated).
• Other rules including the movement of snakes are same with the single player mode

Basic rule of auto player mode

• A bot automatically plays the single player Snake game.
• The final score is calculated, but not recorded in the ranking board. - The score is just displayed

Basic user interfaces

• The main menu of the game includes
  1. SINGLE PLAY : starts a new single-player game
  2. DUAL PLAY : starts a new dual-player game
  3. AUTO PLAY : starts a new auto play game
  4. LOAD : loads a saved single-player game
  5. RANKING : displays the top-ranked players’ name and score
  6. EXIT : terminates the game

UI for the dual player game

• Once the game is started, two players control their snake using arrow keys and w-a-s-d keys, respectively.
• The players can pause the game by pressing a special key (e.g., the ESC key)
• Once paused, the in-game menu is popped up with the following options:

1. RESUME continues to play the paused game
2. RESTART starts a new game, instead of the paused game
3. EXIT returns to the main menu without saving the current game status(the save functionality is not supported in the dual player mode)

UI for the auto player mode

• Once the game is started, a bot (not a human player) automatically plays the game.
• The user can pause the game by pressing a special key (e.g., the ESC key)
• Once paused, the in-game menu is popped up with the following options:

1. RESUME continues to play the paused game
2. RESTART starts a new game, instead of the paused game
3. EXIT returns to the main menu without saving the current game status(the save functionality is not supported in the auto play mode)

UI for all games

• Once a game is finished, a simple pop-up message, which contains the final results (e.g., the final score or the winner) is displayed

Guildeline to install and run the game

• Dowload the Github desktop
• Open our repository named Snake game in Github desktop, then the project including file soure code, file images and the others will save in your local disk that you choose
• Run the project with any IDE or platform which support to Java language