Make a snake game, your way

Two snake formats to start from

• Classic grid. One snake, a grid, food appears, you grow. The whole tension is your own tail. Snipworm in Roam turns it into a puzzle where the worm has two heads.
• .io arena. Many snakes in one big field. Cut someone off and they burst into food. Neon Serpent Arena in Roam is eat, grow, boost past the top snake, Slither.io-like.

Twists to ask for

• Food that runs. "The mice run away from the snake, faster ones are worth more."
• Boost costs length. "Hold to boost, but you shrink while boosting." Risk in one button.
• Moving walls. "The grid gets smaller every 30 seconds."
• Two heads. "Each end of the snake is a head, swipe to switch which one moves."
• Friends as rivals. "Arena with my friends as the other snakes, last one alive wins the round."
• New setting. "A noodle in a ramen bowl, eat the toppings, avoid the chopsticks."

Tune it by talking

Snake lives on speed. If the first build feels too fast, say "slower at the start, faster every 5 food." If the grid is cramped on a phone screen, say "bigger grid cells." If dying feels unfair, ask for "one second of warning before the wall closes."

Snake is a classic first project in coding classes because the rules are tiny. In Roam you skip the code and spend the time on the twist instead.

Questions people ask

How do you make a snake game?

Decide the field, how the snake grows and how you lose. In Roam you write that in a sentence and it comes back playable.

Can I make a Slither.io-like game?

Yes. Ask for an arena with many snakes, a boost and food from fallen snakes, with your friends as rivals.

Is Snake hard to code?

It is one of the easier games to code, which is why classes use it. In Roam you do not need to code it at all.