write a python program to create a snake game
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Explanation:
Yes, I know you all have played the Snake Game and definitely, you never wanted to lose. As kids, we all loved looking for cheats in order to never see the “Game Over” message but as techies, I know you would want to make this ‘Snake’ dance to your beats. This is what I will be showing you all in this article on Snake Game in Python.
Before moving on, let’s have a quick look at all the sub-bits that build the Snake Game in Python:
Installing Pygame
Create the Screen
Create the Snake
Moving the Snake
Game Over when Snake hits the boundaries
Adding the Food
Increasing the Length of the Snake
Displaying the Score
Installing Pygame:
The first thing you will need to do in order to create games using Pygame is to install it on your systems. To do that, you can simply use the following command:
pip install pygame
Once that is done, just import Pygame and start off with your game development. Before moving on, take a look at the Pygame functions that have been used in this Snake Game along with their descriptions.
Function Description
init()
Initializes all of the imported Pygame modules (returns a tuple indicating success and failure of initializations)
display.set_mode()
Takes a tuple or a list as its parameter to create a surface (tuple preferred)
update()
Updates the screen
quit()
Used to uninitialize everything
set_caption()
Will set the caption text on the top of the display screen
event.get()
Returns list of all events
Surface.fill()
Will fill the surface with a solid color
time.Clock()
Helps track time time
font.SysFont()
Will create a Pygame font from the System font resources
Create the Screen:
To create the screen using Pygame, you will need to make use of the display.set_mode() function. Also, you will have to make use of the init() and the quit() methods to initialize and uninitialize everything at the start and the end of the code. The update() method is used to update any changes made to the screen. There is another method i.e flip() that works similarly to the update() function. The difference is that the update() method updates only the changes that are made (however, if no parameters are passed, updates the complete screen) but the flip() method redoes the complete screen again.