Snake- You know, off of the Nokia mobile phones

[rino_2]

Hi all,

I've made Snake off the Nokia phones. Please have a look at it and let me know what you think. It was made in VB6. I'll give you the source if you like. Download it here: http://members.xoom.com/rino_2/BeliefSnake.exe

I don't see how that game got so famous off nokia.. that game was made by microsoft and usually you could download it for Qbasic.. it was called Nibbles..

[SteveCRM]

Except Nokia was the first to put a game on a phone. Its just one of those addictive little games. So a little kid will go up to his parents and ask if he can play on their phone. So it became kind of famouse after a while.

[rino_2]

So, what do you think of the game?

Addictive.

[LaXkId842]

Very addictive! I was playin it for like an hour! Actually like 10 min but it is cool!

I have a 10 feet long snake! enuff said... :)

How about programming a High Score table into it?

[rino_2]

I'm programming a high score table into it and have fixed some of the bugs. I'll get it uploaded soon.

[SteveCRM]

A High Score Table Is A Really Good Idea!

[kedaman]

So; Nibbles comes up again, the best qbasic game ever!!! Well check out my homepage since it's updated today with the source code of my snake demo ;)

[musixman]

add a internet high score to, if you bored of course.
you could do it like in dope wars and encrypt the score
and they could submit it.

hehe,
MM

[rino_2]

Hi Guys!

I've made a few updates to the game i.e. High Score Table. I've fixed all the bugs, you may have noticed on the old version that the snake moved down faster than it moved in any other direction - been fixed! There isn’t default scores like on most games. The first score you get will be at the top of the high score table until you knock it down. Make sure you keep the game in the same directory all the time so you don’t loose the scores. If you do move the game make sure you also move the “scores.sco” file because this stores the scores in. Please Note: The “scores.sco” file will be created when you score, you will not have it when you download the game.

The game can grow to a maximum of 200 squares long! I don’t think you’ll ever do it. Lets us know when/if you do. At the moment my highest score is 4550 – try beating that! The harder the level the more you score.

The game isn’t finished yet. I wanted the mouse cursor the disappear when you play the game but for some reason the ShowCursor API wasn’t working for me. I have another idea. Maybe it would be good if I made a level with obstacles and not just the walls? – Let me know if you like the idea. Enjoy…

http://members.xoom.com/rino_2/BeliefSnake.exe


[Edited by rino_2 on 07-11-2000 at 02:54 PM]

[PsyVision]

Can i have da source plz,

E-Mail: xl2101@lords-of-darkness.com
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[jmatello]

The game's sweet rino!! I like the idea of obstacles. Keep working on this project!! Use your imagination!

I'd love to see the source code...

jmatello@yahoo.com

[rino_2]

Of course I’m going to upload the source code for you guys. At the moment though it’s looking very messy and there are no comments. I’ll release it very soon after I’ve cleaned it up. Thanks for the feedback!

[rino_2]

I’ve now released the source code! It’s not the code for the version with the high score table and main menu. It seemed to me that people were interested in learning how to move the snake so I made another little version with many comments. This version still has all the things like collision detection and eating the food to make the snake grow. I didn’t want all the code from the full version to bog you down and I wanted it to be easy for everybody to understand.

The source was written in VB6 so if you’re using VB5 and are having trouble running the source simply follow these instructions:

1) Open up the project file in Notepad
2) Close to the bottom lines there should be a line that looks like this one “Retained=0”
3) Remove this line and press save and you should now be able to run it in lower versions of VB

Link: http://members.xoom.com/rino_2/snake_source.zip


[Edited by rino_2 on 07-13-2000 at 05:26 PM]