NSNAKE(6) BSD Games Manual NSNAKE(6)NAMEnsnake — a snake game for your terminal
SYNOPSISnsnake [-cnsw] [-C color]
DESCRIPTION
You are controlling a snake where the goal is eating food spawning ran‐
domly on the screen.
There are two types of food, normal and free, respectively +, *.
The head of the snake is symbolized with an @.
Each time you eat a piece of food, the snake will be shrunk by two. If
you eat a free piece of food the score will be increased but not the
snake's length.
The following options are available:
-c Disable colors, by default if the terminal is capable colors are
enabled.
-C color
Specify an alternate color between 0 and 8. (default 2)
-n Do not try to update score file.
-s Only display high score sorting by descending and exit.
-w Disable wall crossing. Can be used together with -s to show score
with wall crossing disabled.
KEYS
To move the snake the following keys may be used:
Up, k
Move to up
Down, j
Move to down
Left, h
Move to left
Right, l
Move to right
p
Suspend the game until p is pressed again.
c
Change the color.
q
Quit the game and save the score.
AUTHORSnsnake was written by David Demelier <markand@malikania.fr>
BUGS
The snake seems to be faster when moving vertically, this is due to ter‐
minal character dimensions.
BSD February 27, 2011 BSD
