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From: "Johan Henriksson" <johan DOT he AT telia DOT com>
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Subject: Re: making a snake grow
Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1999 13:31:26 +0100
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-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew R. Gillett <arganoid AT fatal-design DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Date: Saturday, January 09, 1999 10:09 PM
Subject: Re: making a snake grow


>In comp.os.msdos.djgpp, Ben Dowling wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am writing a game called wormies, it is a snake
>> clone, but I don't know how to make the snake
>> grow! Could any one help me?
>
>How far have you got with the game so far? Presumably you must have a
>variable which contains the length of the snake, otherwise how do you
>know how much snake to draw on the screen?
>
>--
>Andrew Gillett       http://argnet.fatal-design.com/      ICQ: See homepage
>"No mustard? You dare to insult me with a mustard-less pizza? You will die
> for this!" - Michelangelo, Starship Losers
>

Allright. Let's see if I can help you...

typedef struct snakepart
 {
 short int x,y,type;
 } snakepart;
snakepart snake[SNAKE_MAXLENGTH];

short int snake_length;

I'd say this is the easy approach. Draw snake[0->snake_lenght]. To make it
longer: snake_length++; To move the snake:
snake[itteration+1]=snake[itteration]; Then place snake[0] at the heads new
position. Not to hard.