From: pjotr AT wlink DOT net (pjotr)
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Subject: Re: making a snake grow
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 00:15:35 GMT
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On Sat, 9 Jan 1999 16:31:34 -0000, arganoid AT fatal-design DOT com (Andrew
R. Gillett) wrote:

>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?

Wouldn't a simple array be sufficient? where snakepos[0] holds the
snake's head position and snakepos[length_of_snake] holds the tail.

Pjotr