The classic game Snake for the Playdate console.

Eat apples. Get long. Avoid yourself.

Includes high-score tracking, dark mode, 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

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.

Credits

• Game programmed by Brett Chalupa
• Color snake and apple icons come from OpenMoji
• Pixel snake on the game's card and icon comes from the NEC emoji set from 1990
• Sound effects made with jsfxr
  

Public Domain

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