text-snake

text-snake is a simple console-based snake game in Python. It's designed to be playable on a broad range of terminals, including Windows, Linux, and MacOS. The game is built using the blessed library, which provides a high-level interface for handling terminal graphics and input.

Features

• Cross‑platform – tested on Windows, Ubuntu and Fedora
• Works everywhere – runs in a terminal window, no GUI required
• Adjustable – change the speed, length, and other parameters
• High‑scores – top 10 stored locally

Installation

Installation by pip

git clone https://github.com/Ninja00Shadow/text_snake.git
cd text_snake
pip install .

Pipx

pipx install git+https://github.com/Ninja00Shadow/text_snake.git

Quick start

snake                 # start the game
snake scores          # print the current high‑score table
snake defaults        # change the default values (speed, length, etc.)

Controls

• WASD keys to control the snake
• q to quit the game

More config options

snake --help