Retro Revival: AI What-If Snake Game 🕹️🤖

A retro-style Snake game inspired by classic Windows 95 aesthetics, enhanced with a modern AI-powered What-If Mode that analyzes alternate player decisions after game over.

This project was built for Week 4: Retro Revival Challenge, focusing on recreating classic gameplay while introducing complex AI-driven logic.

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🎯 Project Theme

Retro Revival – Rebuilding a classic game with old-school visuals and adding a modern AI twist.

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✨ Features

• 🟩 Classic Snake gameplay
• 🎨 Windows 95 / Arcade-style retro UI
• 🧠 AI “What-If” Mode:
  • Simulates alternate player decisions after death
  • Shows how a different move could increase survival
  • Displays a ghost snake path overlay
• 👻 Ghost visualization for AI replay
• ⚙️ Complex logic with state cloning and simulation

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🤖 AI What-If Mode (How It Works)

When the player loses:

1. The game captures the last valid game state
2. AI simulates alternate directions (left, right, forward)
3. Each path is replayed in a sandbox simulation
4. The best outcome is selected
5. A ghost snake path is displayed along with an AI explanation:

“If you turned RIGHT, you would survive 6 more moves.”

This brings modern AI-driven analysis into a classic retro game.

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🛠 Tech Stack

• HTML
• CSS (Retro / Win95 UI styling)
• JavaScript
• Rule-based AI simulation logic

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📁 Project Structure

/retro-ai-snake ├── index.html ├── style.css ├── game.js ├── ai/ │ └── whatIf.js ├── assets/ ├── README.md └── .kiro/ ├── prompts.md ├── decisions.md └── iterations.md

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📸 Screenshots & Demo

(Add screenshots and a short gameplay recording here)

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⚡ How Kiro Accelerated Development

Kiro was used throughout development to:

• Generate and refine game logic
• Design AI simulation workflows
• Iterate faster on alternate-path prediction
• Improve visualization of AI outputs

The .kiro directory documents prompts, decisions, and iterations made with Kiro’s assistance.

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🚀 How to Run

1. Clone the repository
2. Open index.html in a browser
3. Play the game and explore the AI What-If Mode after game over

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🏁 Conclusion

This project demonstrates how modern AI concepts can enhance classic retro games while preserving their original charm. By combining old-school UI with intelligent post-game analysis, the Retro Revival theme is fully realized.