History
The classic game of snake consists of controlling a single dot on a screen that leaves a trail behind it. The goal is for the player to try and survive for as long as they possibly can whilst the snake grows in size. If the player ever runs into a wall or the snake's own body, they lose! Naturally, the goal of the game is to get as far as one possibly can before this occurs in an attempt to achieve a highscore.
In fact, this was how I first encountered the game as a 4-5 year old kid!
Sadly, 1998 was quite some time ago but this concept of a Snake game has been around for even longer! Since around 1976 in fact (according to Wikipedia at least). The game that had originally spawned the idea was called Blockade.
Ever since then, we've had many different implementations of the
game. In fact, there are over 300 Snake-like games for iOS
(Wikipedia)!
This is likely due to the fact that the game is incredibly easy to program
(I personally had it up and running on this website within just a few hours).
Anyways, that was just a very brief and high level look at the history
of Snake! I hope you learned something today like appreciating archaic
video games from the past. Truly, this is something that only the most
cultured of individuals would be interested in. You are cultured, aren't
you?
Development Team
Fullstack
This is Alexander Aguilar (also known as kenny-designs over on GitHub). He programmed this entire website!
Art(?)
Hey. It's me again. You know, kenny-designs? Anyways, does using ASCII characters even count as 'art'?
Why the WiFi Theme?
We've all had WiFi troubles. There's no doubt about that. And, quite frankly, it sucks. Connection problems are an ordeal that no one should have to suffer through without at least something to occupy their time. It was likely due to this line of reasoning that we have games such as Google's Dinosaur game to keep us proccupied during these trying times.
This little game is fun and all but surely we want more
from our offline gaming experiences? Are we, the people, not good enough
for you Google? Is there truly no other game in the world that can be
played offline in our own browsers? Shhh! Don't answer. There is a solution
and that solution is Snake: WiFi Edition!
We all deserve the best offline browser gaming experience we can
muster and Snake: WiFi Edition is just the game for that. Our
engineers (me) have worked moderately hard to provide you with a game
that doesn't integrate with your web browser at all to play a something you
probably don't even care about. But we care. Next time your WiFi is
down, search for Snake: WiFi Edition and give it a play! That is,
when your WiFi is back up... We're working on that part.
Why all the 404s?
Glad you asked! Take a look below to see a table of common HTTP response codes:
| Error Code | Description |
|---|---|
| 400 Bad Request | Request sent to the server has bad syntax. |
| 401 Unauthorized | User trying to access resource that they have not been authenticated for. |
| 403 Forbidden | User made a valid request but lacks the permission to access the requested resource. |
| 404 Not Found | User was able to communicate with the server but is unable to locate the requested file/resource. |
Did you see that last error code? The 404 Not Found one? Ever since
I was a little kid, I've become quite familiar with this little error code.
It got in the way of many web games I tried playing and it typically happened
when my WiFi was acting rather poorly. That there was what inspired me to
create this snake game!
In truth, Snake: WiFi Edition is a celebration of what is perhaps the
most well known and infamous HTTP error code in the world! The good 'ol 404
File Not Found response. Isn't it just awesome?
Reasons to play Snake: WiFi Edition
Not convinced you should give the game a go yet? Why I oughta... Oughta... Oughta give you a list of reason to as of why you should!
- Snake is a classic game!
- Snakes are cool.
- Dinosaurs are cool too but they're all dead where else snakes aren't.
- We all need WifI, don't we?
- It'll make the developers happy.
- It's green like the original Gameboy.
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- What are you waiting for just play the darn thing already!