snake in love2d

This is my first ever "Real-Coding" project. I was used to script some neat bash-scripts but never have i touched anything proper. YES i love neovim customization as you can see with my neovim configs mini and nvim. And while i did learn much lua with configuring my neovim, i thought it should be time to gather some more knowlage and spread my legs to other topics which i was interested in for a while, but never was brave enough to start a project. Now here we have the love2d snake variant of mine.

Right now, the snake only has a head, which can move up, down, left and right with either wasd or the vim bindings (hjkl). The score is updated after you pick up an apple/goodie, and the pickup of the goodie resets the position of it, so that it's on a different spot every time. The gameboard right now is 7x7 (9x9 grid with 1 space outside of the gamefield) just for the ease of use. I'm still planning to implement a neat game mechanic, where the game field extends if you won a level.

Right now i'm still in the learning process of finding the logic to code some actions. That's why i have so much Debugging happening. I coded it in, also to just get to know the language and syntax a bit better. You could in theory turn this off if you just comment the lines with the Debug. prefix (Though the score is also displayed via the Debug.print_score, so you might not want to comment IT out..)

How to 'play'

Just clone the repo:

git clone --depth=1 https://git.k4li.de/love2d/snake.git

.. and run with love (11.4+)

cd snake && love .

To install love, you probably just have to do apt-get install love or pacman -S love and you should be good to go.