Journal

Snake in go

08 Sep 2026

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go

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snake

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Using the Ebitengine, I made a very ugly and simple snake game, mostly to learn a bit more about how game programming works, dip my toes a little bit. You can find the code here.

snake go game gif

I did this purely to see how it feels to write a game loop. That's why there is only one level, randoming a constant amount of points to eat. The gif above is basically the entire game.

The only addition is pressing the spacebar to go at maximum speed.

It was interesting to write something completely different than the usual web stuff. I did enjoy it a lot and I'm looking forward to the next one, with bevy while learning rust. It'll be more polished, maybe.

If I had to point out one aspect I did not enjoy at all, it's writing text. It's probably because I'm coming from the web where this is so trivial, but what a nightmare to size and position. It's 100% a skill issue, I hope, but goddamn.