Snake Race

A KDE Snake game

Overview
Rules of the game
Create your own levels
Scoring
About "ksnake"

Overview

Snake Race is a game of speed and agility. You are a hungry snake and are trying to eat all the apples in the room before getting out!

Rules of the game

To win Snake Race you must eat all the apples in the room and leave through the exit that opens at the top.

each apple you eat makes you grow longer.
if you hit a wall, you die
if you hit yourself , you die
if you are hit in the head by a bouncing ball, you die
if you take too long to eat the apples, more of them appear.

Create your own levels

To create your own level copy one of the levels from $KDEDIR/share/apps/ksnake/levels to ~/.kde/share/apps/ksnake and edit it with a bitmap editor. You can then select it in Options/Starting room.

Scoring

Before the timer has run out, you score:

1 point for a red apple + a bonus depending on your skill level.
5 points for a gold apple + a bonus for your skill level + 2points for each computer snake + 2 points for each bouncing ball.
twice your level number when you exit the room + a bonus depending on your skill level.

After the timer has run out, you score:

1 point for a red apple
2 points for a gold apple
points equal to your level number when you exit the room + a bonus depending on your skill level.

When the computer snake eats an object you loose:

2 points for a red apple
5 points for a gold apple

20 points for killing a computer snake!!!

About Snake Race

"ksnake" is part of the KDE (Kool Desktop Environment) project. It was written by Michel Filippi .

The program is published under the GNU GPL.