Spherical Snake • Hacker News Board

Re: Spherical Snake

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Post by Wowfunhappy » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 12:17 AM UTC

elicash wrote: post #78

bogtog wrote: post #10

The game looks really good, although I think it'd be improved if the sphere was a bit smaller. It feels like it takes too long for the game to become difficult

Speed should slightly increase with each new apple

I strongly disagree, I like that the challenge comes from the snake getting longer as opposed to speed.

Re: Spherical Snake

#102

Post by throwawayk7h » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 12:18 AM UTC

Cute but this game does not become interesting until score 50 or more.

Re: Spherical Snake

#103

Post by amichail » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 12:29 AM UTC

shermantanktop wrote: post #75

amichail wrote: post #43

For a new kind of snake game, check out PluriSnake. PluriSnake is a snake-based color matching daily puzzle game. Color matching is used in two ways: (1) matching circles creates snakes, and (2) matching a snake’s color with the squares beneath it destroys them. Snakes, but not individual circles, can be moved by snaking to squares of matching color, as long as their paths are not blocked by other snakes. The goal is…

I tried it, but really shouldn't have as I am colorblind and so matches were quite difficult. Some color games have an option for a colorblind-safe palette, maybe consider that?

The iPhone has built-in color filters. Have you tried using one of them?

Re: Spherical Snake

#104

Post by JackWot » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 12:37 AM UTC

I thought I had the highest score, until I checked the leaderboard.

Re: Spherical Snake

#105

Post by JackWot » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 12:39 AM UTC

JackWot wrote: post #104

I thought I had the highest score, until I checked the leaderboard.

Perhaps i should've taken the easy way and run a command in the console.

Re: Spherical Snake

#106

Post by nacozarina » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 12:46 AM UTC

this posting was a $2B+ hit to our GDP

Re: Spherical Snake

#107

Post by subset » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 1:00 AM UTC

kevinAlbs wrote: post #93

I was pleasantly surprised when a friend texted me after work to say this game was on Hacker News. I hope it brought some small joy to your day. Some comments helped identify some minor tweaks. I do not expect to have time or motivation to make bigger changes soon. Feel free to make GitHub issues.

Thanks for writing this game! I came across it after seeing your Checkers written in Rust for WASM game[0], and thought it deserved an HN submission of its own.

[0] https://github.com/kevinAlbs/Checkers

Re: Spherical Snake

#108

Post by steve_adams_86 » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 1:06 AM UTC

JackWot wrote: post #105

JackWot wrote: post #104

I thought I had the highest score, until I checked the leaderboard.

Perhaps i should've taken the easy way and run a command in the console.

The way I did it was to edit my high score in local storage, lose a game, then submit my 'high score'. I wonder how others did it.

Re: Spherical Snake

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Post by p1mrx » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 1:14 AM UTC

Reminds me of Uncle Worm, among the better TI-83+ games. It's 2D, but the snake is curvy:

https://www.ticalc.org/archives/files/fileinfo/96/9683.html

Re: Spherical Snake

#110

Post by hirsin » Wed, Jan 07, 2026, 1:15 AM UTC

kevinAlbs wrote: post #93

I was pleasantly surprised when a friend texted me after work to say this game was on Hacker News. I hope it brought some small joy to your day. Some comments helped identify some minor tweaks. I do not expect to have time or motivation to make bigger changes soon. Feel free to make GitHub issues.

I was unsure of the licensing, so happy to take it down if it's not open - but I forked this to test some agent features on GitHub mobile and was happy with it. https://hpsin.github.io/SphericalSnake/ and the PR I single shotted for testing https://github.com/hpsin/SphericalSnake/pull/1

Thanks for a fun mobile friendly test run!