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+++ title = "Snake in go" date = 2026-09-08
[taxonomies] tags = ["go", "game", "snake", "discovery"] +++
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.
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.