Ubuntu Games: Bitsnake

Who doesn't love a classic game of snake? No one? That is what I thought!

Bitsnake is just that a classic snake game written in Python. A snake game written in a language named after a snake you say! Well actually it's named after the British comedy troupe, but still...

You know snake right. They game where your goal is to eat "apples" and try not to run into the wall or yourself. Simple, classic big fat time killer.

Get it!

You can download the game here. Just unrar and play. Here is a quick how to for you terminal junkies...

First make sure that you have the correct dependencies.

$ sudo apt-get install python-pygame

Download the rar file.

$ wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/bitsnake/files/bitSnake_source.rar

Extract that rar.

$ unrar x bitSnake_source.rar

Play the game!

$ cd bitSnake/ && python bitSnake.py

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