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Re: Spherical Snake

#12

Post by tgtweak »

bArray wrote: post #8

Quite a good implementation, got to 62 and was playing a "space filling curve" strategy to bleed off some of the length. Looking at the leader-board I suspect some people are just sending off their own custom submissions [1]. [1] https://kevinalbs.com/spherical_snake/leaderboard/

There is a maximum theoretical length and the sphere actually allows you to wrap around it, Rod of Asclepius style, until you get there - picking up an apple on each cycle. I suspect it's not more than a few hundred segments though so those ~600 submissions are probably someone gaming the submission with a forged score.

Re: Spherical Snake

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Post by therobots927 »

Very cool but on iOS safari, if I click one of the buttons twice too quickly it zooms in and I can’t see the full screen or the other button. Hard to zoom back out at least on my phone.

Re: Spherical Snake

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Post by fusslo »

tgtweak wrote: post #12
bArray wrote: post #8

Quite a good implementation, got to 62 and was playing a "space filling curve" strategy to bleed off some of the length. Looking at the leader-board I suspect some people are just sending off their own custom submissions [1]. [1] https://kevinalbs.com/spherical_snake/leaderboard/

There is a maximum theoretical length and the sphere actually allows you to wrap around it, Rod of Asclepius style, until you get there - picking up an apple on each cycle. I suspect it's not more than a few hundred segments though so those ~600 submissions are probably someone gaming the submission with a forged score.

now there's 9999 and 1337 for scores. Imma guess there's not a lot of security on the scoreboard of a fun little game
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