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title = "Snake in go"
date = 2026-09-08

[taxonomies]
tags = ["go", "game", "snake", "discovery"]
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Using the [Ebitengine](https://ebitengine.org/), 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](https://git.bricebernard.dev/Mimu/snake-game).

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<img class="center" src="snake_go.gif" alt="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.

I didn't really learn anything in Go but 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.