SnARM

a Snake game implentation for ARM

Alberto Grand, Vittorio Giovara11/16/2007

Chapter 1

User Manual

1.1 Basic Rules

In this game you control a snake which is hunting for food. You can moveyour snake in any direction and you just need to pass over the food in orderto eat it. However every time you eat something your body will grow andyou’ll have to be more careful not to touch the snake body or any of theborders. Otherwise you are in for some very bad stomachache!

1.2 Controls

While in game, you can move around with 4 buttons.

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- Moves the snake LEFT;

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- Moves the snake RIGHT;

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- Moves the snake UP;

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- Moves the snake DOWN;Moreover should you need to stop the game, but don’t want to lose yourscore you can pause the game pressing

.If you wish to restart or start back after a gameover, you have to pressthe

(RESET) button.

1.3 Levels

We prepared 8 diﬀerent levels (easy 1

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8 difficult) with different pattern of walls. The speed of the snake will increase accordingly to the level difficultyand to how much food was eaten.1

1.4 Eating food

Food appears randomly in every part of the screen.If you are enough lucky you might have the chance of eating a specialfood; this kind of food will make your snake grow bigger than special food,but it will slow down its speed. However you have to eat this special foodas soon as possibile since it goes away very quickly.

1.5 Your score

Every time you eat a piece of food you score increases accordingly with thelevel diﬃculty, from 1 point in level one to 8 points in level 8. If you manageto eat a special piece of food you will get ten times the points you wouldreceive with normal food!2