🐍 slang

My take on the classic snake game, built using C99, CMake and SDL3.

Gameplay Example

Controls

• Use arrows or wasd to control the snake.
• Eat the red apples to grow longer and score points.
• Avoid running into yourself, or it's game over!
• Walls will wrap around to the other side of the screen.
• Use esc to pause and unpause the game.
• Use the Options button on the start or pause menus to adjust volume or mute.

Config

The game writes a config.ini file next to the executable on all platforms. If the file is missing or invalid, it is recreated with defaults.

Example:

high_score=12
mute=0
volume=0.80
resume_delay=2

Building

This project uses git submodules to manage dependencies. They may require additional dependencies themselves.

• C Compiler (e.g., GCC, Clang, MSVC)
• CMake (version 3.16 or higher)
• SDL3 (automatically handled via submodules)

Start off by cloning the repository with its submodules:

# Clone the repository with submodules
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/radicazz/slang.git
cd slang

Then, configure and build the project using CMake:

# Configure & build the project
cmake -S . -B build
cmake --build build

The compiled executable will be located in the build directory.

License

This project is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0 - see the LICENSE.txt file for details.