Snake Terminal

A terminal screensaver featuring an autonomous snake that hunts for food using pathfinding algorithms.

Description

Snake Terminal is a visual terminal application where a green snake automatically navigates to consume red food pellets. Built with Ratatui, it provides an aesthetic terminal interface suitable for entertainment or as a live screensaver.

The snake uses BFS pathfinding to intelligently navigate around obstacles, creating smooth and realistic movement patterns.

Features

• Autonomous snake with intelligent pathfinding
• Clean terminal UI with minimal design
• Configurable max score for auto-reset
• Real-time score tracking
• Smooth animations at 80ms tick rate

Dependencies

• ratatui 0.26 - Terminal UI framework
• crossterm 0.27 - Terminal manipulation
• rand 0.8 - Random number generation

Installation

git clone https://github.com/traitimtrongvag/predator-snake-rs.git
cd predator-snake-rs
cargo build --release

Usage

Run with default settings (max score: 50):

cargo run --release

Run with custom max score:

cargo run --release -- 100

Press q to quit.

Configuration

Speed can be adjusted in src/main.rs:

let tick_rate = Duration::from_millis(80); // Lower = faster

Demo

License

MIT