Snake Game Multiplayer Project

Dependencies

In order to be able to compile and run the game, please, install the follow packages on your linux system:

portaudio. For Ubuntu systems, execute this line command on your terminal: sudo apt-get install portaudio19-dev
ncurses. For Ubuntu systems, execute this line command on your terminal: sudo apt-get install libncurses-dev

Running the Game

In order to run the game, in root folder type on the line command

make server IP=IP_SERVER PORT=PORTNUMBER PLAYERS=N

to run the server. You have to choose a avaiable PORTNUMBER and the number of players N. After that, ou just have to run the client program in another terminal or another machine typing

make client IP=IP_TARGET PORT=PORTNUMBER

where IP_TARGET is the IP of the machine of the server. Ensure that all dependencies are installed. Please, before running the game, maximize your terminal console. The whole game is played at the terminal, so the performance depends of your terminal configurations too.

Game Rules

The game starts with a snake with 4 body peaces of length. According as the snake eats its body grows. The borders of the screen can kill the snake, i.e, there are two ways to reach game over, which are when the snake crash against another snake or against the borders.

Keyboard Map

M/m: Turn on/off sound
ARROW KEYS: Move snake
SPACE BAR: Speed up snake for a little piece of time
ESC: Exit game (At the server, while none players are connected, it is possible close the server pressing this key)

Cleaning Game Space

In order to remove files created during the game, in root folder type on the line command make clean.