PDSnake

The classic game snake for the Playdate console.

Eat apples. Get long. Avoid yourself.

Includes high-score tracking, sound effect toggle, and a battery saver mode. PDSnake runs at a rock-solid 50 FPS. Battery saver mode halves that.

I'd love to know what your high-score is! Mine is currently 36.

How to play:

• Use the d-pad to change the direction you're moving in
• You wrap around the screen
• As you eat more apples, you move a little faster

PDSnake is currently in Early Access. I'm planning to polish it up a bit more (while still maintaining its minimal aesthetic).

Why Another Snake Game?

Decades later, I find Snake to still be challenging, interesting, and fun. It's so simple yet engaging. I noticed there aren't any no-frills versions of Snake for Playdate. Sometimes it's nice to just have a classic version available to play.

Snake is also a great way to learn new game development tooling.

Learn to Make Playdate Games

PDSnake is a polished version of a game from Make Games for Playdate with Lua, a beginner-friendly book about learning game programming for the curious little yellow console.

Public Domain

PDSnake is released into the public domain, and its source is freely available to download here on itch or at https://sr.ht/~bcodes/pdsnake/