✨ SNAKE.EXE ✨

A retro-styled, fully polished Snake game built using Python and the Turtle graphics module — enhanced with sound effects, theme customization, animated menus, difficulty selection, special modes, and persistent high score tracking.

🖼 Demo

🎮 Features

• Animated Start Menu
  Navigate using arrow keys and confirm selections with ENTER — choose from:

  • Difficulty: Easy, Medium, Hard
  • Theme: Pastel Kawaii 🌸 or Arcade 90s 🎮

• Sound Effects + Music

  • Menu and game themes with looping background music
  • Distinct sounds for selection, special mode, food, game over, and high score!

• Smooth Gameplay Mechanics

  • Classic snake behavior: movement, growth, wall and tail collision
  • Gradual speed increase for added challenge
  • Polished game loop and controls (arrow keys to move)

• Special Mode Power-Up
  Every 5 points, a flashing gold food appears. If eaten quickly:

  • Snake glows gold ✨
  • Double points for 10 seconds
  • Special mode countdown shown on screen

• High Score System

  • Tracks and saves your highest score in a text file
  • Celebrates with a flashing "NEW HIGH SCORE!" animation and sound

• Replay Menu with Arrow Navigation

  • After Game Over, use ⬅️ ➡️ to select:
    • Replay
    • Quit

🐍 Technologies Used

• Python 3
• Turtle graphics module (GUI + drawing)
• playsound for sound effects
• pygame.mixer for looping background music
• Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) design with custom classes

🧠 What I Learned

This project was a deep dive into:

• Real-time game logic and loop-based updates
• OOP best practices and modular design across multiple files
• Event-driven programming with turtle-style key binding
• Audio integration in Python using both playsound and pygame.mixer
• Designing intuitive menus and gameplay flows within Turtle's limitations
• File handling for persistent score tracking
• UX polishing with visual and audio feedback systems

📂 Project Structure

snake_game/
├── main.py
├── snake.py
├── food.py
├── scoreboard.py
├── screenshot.png
├── demo.gif
├── sounds/
│   ├── menu_theme.mp3
│   ├── game_theme.wav
│   ├── select.wav
│   ├── food.wav
│   ├── special_mode.mp3
│   ├── game_over.wav
│   └── new_high_score.wav
├── high_score.txt  ← (auto-generated during gameplay)
├── .gitignore
└── README.md

🚀 How to Run

1. Clone this repo:

   git clone https://github.com/yourusername/snake_game.git

2. Install dependencies:

   pip install playsound pygame

3. Run the game:

   python main.py

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🔮 Future Improvements

• Add obstacles and evolving level layouts for progressive difficulty
• Create animated snake skins or sprite styles for visual variety
• Implement particle effects or glow trails during special mode
• Build a simple high score leaderboard to support multiple players
• Package the game as a standalone executable for easier sharing

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🛑 Notes

• high_score.txt is auto-generated at runtime to store your best score. It is excluded from version control via .gitignore.
• This game is completely self-contained and requires no deployment or external services.