🐍 Snake Game

A modern terminal-based implementation of the classic Snake game, written in Rust.

Features

• Local 2-Player Split-Screen - Compete with a friend on the same screen
• Custom Themes - Choose from multiple snake themes
• Powerups & Obstacles - Dynamic gameplay elements
• Dynamic terminal resizing - Game adapts to terminal size changes (including split-screen)
• Multiple difficulty levels - Easy, Medium, and Hard modes
• Combo system - Chain food pickups for bonus points
• Persistent high scores - Tracks your best performance
• Modern UI - Clean interface with ratatui and crossterm
• Full keyboard navigation - Arrow keys, WASD, and menu navigation

Requirements

• Rust 1.70 or higher
• Terminal with Unicode support (recommended: 80x30 minimum)

Installation

git clone https://github.com/Awungia112/snake_game.git
cd snake_game
cargo build --release

Usage

cargo run --release

Controls

Menu Navigation:

• ↑/↓ or W/S - Navigate options
• Enter or Space - Select
• T - Change difficulty
• Q - Quit

In-Game (Single Player):

• ↑/↓/←/→ or WASD - Move snake
• P - Pause
• R - Restart
• Q - Return to menu

In-Game (2-Player Mode):

• Player 1: Arrow Keys - Move
• Player 2: WASD - Move
• P - Pause both games
• R - Rematch (on Game Over)
• Q - Quit to menu

Pause Menu:

• P - Resume
• Q - Quit to menu

Technical Stack

• Language: Rust (Edition 2021)
• UI Framework: ratatui
• Terminal Backend: crossterm
• Random Generation: rand
• Data Persistence: serde + serde_json