🐍 Snake Game (Python + Pygame)

A classic Snake Game developed with Python and Pygame. This project includes basic game mechanics, keyboard control, score tracking, game over detection, restart function, and a custom icon image integrated into the game interface.

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🎮 Features

• 🐍 Classic Snake gameplay

• ⌨️ Keyboard controls:

  • Arrow Keys (↑ ↓ ← →)
  • WASD keys (W A S D)

• 🍎 Food generation system

• 📊 Real-time score display

• 💀 Game Over screen

• 🔄 Press R to restart the game

• 🚪 Press ESC to exit

• 🖼️ Custom image/icon support

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🛠️ Technologies Used

• Python 3
• Pygame Library

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📂 Project Structure

Snake-Game/
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├── snake.py        # Main game program
├── jim.png         # Custom game icon/image
└── README.md       # Project documentation

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🚀 Installation & Running

1. Install Python

Make sure Python 3 is installed:

python3 --version

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2. Install Pygame

Open the terminal in this project folder and run:

python3 -m pip install pygame

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3. Run the Game

Start the game using:

python3 snake.py

The game window will open automatically.

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🎯 Controls

Key	Action
↑	Move Up
↓	Move Down
←	Move Left
→	Move Right
W	Move Up
S	Move Down
A	Move Left
D	Move Right
R	Restart Game
ESC	Quit Game

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🧩 Customization

You can replace the image file:

jim.png

with your own image.

Make sure the new image is placed in the same folder as:

snake.py

and update the filename in the Python code if necessary.

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📸 Preview

Example:

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📚 Learning Objectives

Through this project, I practiced:

• Python programming fundamentals
• Object-oriented programming concepts
• Game loop design
• Event handling
• Collision detection
• Image loading and rendering with Pygame

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👨‍💻 Author

Created by Yiming Guan

A simple project exploring Python programming and game development.

Snake-Game