Code Golf Contest #5, anyone?

I actually DID do 1pxl for TI-84+CSE BASIC. Hey, I DID say "largest possible size" (165*165 pxl)!

Quote from: JWinslow23 on August 11, 2014, 01:19:21 pm

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You must make a game of Snake (or Nibbles, if you know it as that). It must follow all of these guidelines:

• It must be played on an square "grid" (each space being the width of one snake segment) as large as possible
• The graphics for the food and the snake segments must each be different
• The border must be clearly defined, and have different graphics from the food or the snake
• The food must spawn on a random EMPTY square, Adriweb
• The snake is moved with interactive input (such as a getKey-like command) if possible; if not supported, you may enter a direction each frame
• Your snake must wrap around the sides of the board
• At game's end, the program must display however many pieces of food were eaten in some way
• Your game, above all, must be playable

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It's not clearly mentioned in the rules, but shouldn't the food always spawn in an empty space as well (not on the snake)?

What unclear rule?

Also, this:

It was the pastebin on the IRC PM

But anyway, I forum-PM'd you ^^

Oh, that's why you sent it to me there. Well, I mean forum PM from now on. Just like last contest.

Also, check that your board is square.

It's slow and huge, but it's a start.

I believe I had something like that, except 100 bytes smaller.

You should move the deadline to 11:59 PM instead of 12 AM, because from experience when I organized Omnimaga contests, even experienced programmers and TI community veterans would mix up 12 AM with 12 PM and it was even more confusing for people living in different timezones.

It's 1:00 AM EST. It's a simple lookup online.

What are the rules on how input must work? All the languages I've been using so far don't support raw input without libraries, and it would be faster to do it via line based input, but also much worse.

It will also be impossible for you to test without installing perl/python and whatever library I use.

I will install perl or python, whichever I get submissions for. I will, however, have to see an animated screenie of any entries of Nspire Lua and any other language I can't test.
If you press a certain key, the snake goes a certain direction. If no key is pressed, the snake keeps going in its current direction. That's how input works. Plain and simple. Like getKey for TI-BASIC, or some complicated sequence with CHOICE for Batch.
Also, yes, Adriweb, that is how it works.

Coded golf 5? Does that mean 4 is over already?

* Ben_g0 forgot to submit his entry again :S

Anyway, I'll try this one. Can we use simple command-line text graphics and rely on the user to set the window to the correct size?

It doesn't matter the size of the window as long as the play area is 8 snake pieces tall and 16 snake pieces wide. And yes, you can use ASCII graphics.