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Python – Lightweight snake game running in the console

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Post by Kanse » Tue, May 19, 2015, 4:04 PM UTC

Python – Lightweight snake game running in the console
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Re: Python – Lightweight snake game running in the console

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Post by vkjv » Tue, May 19, 2015, 4:40 PM UTC

Nice work! IMHO, Snake is one of the best games to get your feet wet programming. I have very fond memories of writing a snake game on the TI-83. IIRC, my event loop was so slow that I didn't even need any wait states to make the game playable.

Re: Python – Lightweight snake game running in the console

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Post by coreyja » Tue, May 19, 2015, 6:22 PM UTC

Not working for me in OSX 10.10. Here is a PasteBin of the error I'm getting. http://pastebin.com/CicWMAc2

Re: Python – Lightweight snake game running in the console

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Post by stillsut » Tue, May 19, 2015, 6:30 PM UTC

Doesn't work on windows -

    ImportError: No module name fcntl

Re: Python – Lightweight snake game running in the console

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Post by tancredi » Tue, May 19, 2015, 6:43 PM UTC

coreyja wrote: post #3

Not working for me in OSX 10.10. Here is a PasteBin of the error I'm getting. http://pastebin.com/CicWMAc2

Try to use with maximised window - it's a bug that happens when trying to draw on a window that's too small

Re: Python – Lightweight snake game running in the console

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Post by ben174 » Tue, May 19, 2015, 6:44 PM UTC

Since this is a snake game, and it's python, you really should switch to snake_case rather than camelCase :)

Re: Python – Lightweight snake game running in the console

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Post by coreyja » Tue, May 19, 2015, 6:46 PM UTC

tancredi wrote: post #5

coreyja wrote: post #3

Not working for me in OSX 10.10. Here is a PasteBin of the error I'm getting. http://pastebin.com/CicWMAc2

Try to use with maximised window - it's a bug that happens when trying to draw on a window that's too small

That worked perfectly for me, thanks!

Re: Python – Lightweight snake game running in the console

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Post by Tankenstein » Tue, May 19, 2015, 8:32 PM UTC

Excellent! Just as a tip, when writing curses it's best to run everything in a curses wrapper, so wrap your main function in curses.wrapper(main) basically. If you don't do so, crashing messes up the terminal.

Re: Python – Lightweight snake game running in the console

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Post by radlad » Tue, May 19, 2015, 8:49 PM UTC

tancredi wrote: post #5

coreyja wrote: post #3

Not working for me in OSX 10.10. Here is a PasteBin of the error I'm getting. http://pastebin.com/CicWMAc2

Try to use with maximised window - it's a bug that happens when trying to draw on a window that's too small

Regarding this, does anyone have tips on how best to do curses layouts that support different window sizes? I'm working on a procedurally generated console game in my free time, using Python + curses, and this is an issue I run into as well.

I've been considering taking some time to try to write some sort of "fluid" or "dynamic" layout framework for curses (i.e. specify percents for width / height, and have it automatically expand). Seems like a giant pain though...