Snake..

[Marcus007]

Hi. I'm new to this forum and I need some help. I just want to clear things out that I'm not asking for codes. I need to make a snake game. I was thinking on how to create the body and make it move? Maybe the body would just be a simple printf, I think? But my real problem is how I would make it move. I was doing research for the past few days and I'm having a hard time finding some codes to make an object move in C. Any advice would be much appreciated, thank you.

[hamsterman]

Obligatory link: http://cplusplus.com/articles/G13hAqkS/ - you'll save yourself a lot of pain.

Now, if you do insist on doing it the hard way, to make an object move you have to redraw it a bunch of times. For example:

int x = 0;
while(x < 80){
   puts("\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n");//move down by 10 rows
   for(int i = 0; i < x; i++) putchar(' ');//move right by x columns
   putchar('#');//draw an object
   puts("\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n");//make sure to fill the screen
   x++;//change x for the next frame
}

(not tested. it should show a # moving right)
Though this could be improved using platform specific functions.

[Marcus007]

Thank you for replying. I would study and test these codes then would get back to you. Thanks again.

[Marcus007]

I'm sorry, I don't know what the link you gave is for. Could you explain what's it for?

[hamsterman]

The link was meant to tell you that there are ways to do this that are easier and look a lot better. Unless you have an actual assignment to make a snake in console..