JAVA! This time something half good...

[elDiablo]

YEP! It's that time of the week again kiddies. This week... I bring to your viewing pleasure... SNAKE! Yes, a snake clone. In java. Using JFrame.

This is a nice little program. It even has scoring etc. And if you hit yourself, yes, you die Comments are something to be desired though. There are some, near the top... about things that are very obvious... OH WELL! use wasd to move around, I couldnt be bothered to look up the values for left, right, etc

And as always, this code is free for you all to use, but give credit where credit is due! As, of course, thanks go to Hektik Sniper for hosting it nicely for me here. And if you want some help with it, or even an extended explanation of the code, just ask.

What games would you guys and gurls like to see next btw? Im working on HL2 for java, so dont suggest it, k?

CHEERS FOR READING PEOPLE!
elDiablo


Edit

For those (lazy) people who cant get it to compile, the bytecode can be found here, here, here, and finally here. Just download them all, put them all in a directory, and run "java Snake" from that directory. Thats it Thanks go to coolsi for hosting those files.

Edit 2

There is a bug! coolsi and Dave2 both found this. DONT PRESS TWO KEYS AT ONCE! If anyone wants, ill make a bug fix, but at the mo, its just the damn engine ppl! stop complaining!

[LLamaBoy]

Yay for elDy and his Javaey goodness!

I just wish I had the time/motivation/ideas to do something productive in Java too, but alas, I'm lazy.

Ah well, I'll just have to link you to an old proggy I made: I call it Jangman

[Edit]Sorry about the downtime of the file, Apache's playing up :/ You'll be notified as soon as it's sorted[/Edit]

[BlueScreen]

do you really want the food to keep jumping around every so often? if not remove or coment out (/* ... */) the method

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public void makeNewFoodThread() {

on lines 149 - 165 and replace line 129

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makeNewFoodThread();

with

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drawFood();

The two button press kill is caused by having the method

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 changeDirection(char)

check against the last snakeDirecton value, which, in the case of this bug is being changed before the snake has moved, allowing the snake to do a fatal u-turn.

to remove, insert another variable, (ie snakeOldDirection) which gets updated only after the snake has moved, in the

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public void moveSnake() {

method, after the switch statement, before the close of the else statement, on about line 360
the the switch statement in the

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 changeDirection(char)

method needs the case if statments changed to:

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if (snakeOldDirection != #) {


(except replace the # with the numbers which are in the statements already), lines 305, 312, 319, 326

[LLamaBoy]

I'm currently editing it to be BETTAR than elD's pitiful effort
I've already put a restart option when you die... Once i get hosting (coolsi?) I'll put the edited version up.

[elDiablo]

BlueScreen, takes for those comments. I didnt even think about the 2 key fatal u-turn when i was making it. I made it stop doing this by only letting you change dir once per snake movement update thanks for you (very) indepth idea though! Its nice to see someone else take an interest in my code! LlamaBoy dont count he's rubbish at coding

Also, I do want the food to kept moving around, to make it a bit more of a challenge. The problem was with the food, that it jumps too quickly sometime. This is due to the foodMovingThread is sleeping, and i call the drawFood method when it is still sleeping. Thus, it calls the drawFood method when it is finished waiting, which COULD (theortically) be a split second after the food has just moved


And finally, although i do like peoples comments and "constructive" put downs, I did make this in 2 hours after finishing my coursework today so dont be too hard?

And LlamaBoy, you know i pwn you at coding

[Sonnybobiche]

I like the creative names you gave to your methods. checkSnakeIsntEatingFood() is a good one... lol.
gj on the coding.

[elDiablo]

THANK YOU! I like people to know what I'm talking about when I code makes it easier!

And thaks for the good job bit!

[exosyphen]

How do i get rid of the tracer in this game !?