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From a token standpoint I agree with your point, even if the OP arbitrarily prefers that method of coding the table up.

Thanks for the kind words! Functionally both methods of adding entries to the snake table are equivalent so you should go with whatever you prefer. I just arbitrarily decided to go with my way :^)

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This way of programming is really good for smaller projects, but not larger ones. You'll soon get lost in thousands of if/then loops etc.

grats on getting your own version done! and yeahh, buffering input is a tricky problem but there's two approaches you can take. 1) whenever player inputs a move, let the next frame be a game update. this will allow a player to easily chain direction changes, but has the side effect of actually speeding up the game when a lot of inputs are activated. 2) have a move queue. each time the player presses a button, place it in the move queue. each snake update pops and does the next up move if the move queue isn't empty. let me know if you still have troubles. maybe i can word it better or give you some example code :^)

If it helps, the easiest way to go about this is probably a 1-key input buffer. What you would want to do is have a global variable that you use to store if an input key has been pressed. Then during every update, before checking to see if the snake's tick has counted down, check to see if the player is pressing an input. If they are, set the input buffer to that key. Then, whenever the snake's tick is triggered, check to see if the buffer variable is nul. If it's not, set the direction and make it nul, otherwise just move the snake in the current direction.

thank you! :^)

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Woo! I'm glad it helped! Good luck on your pico8 journey

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hey, I remember you and your game from the ben bonk jam! thanks for the kind words

thank you so much! there's 3 different aspects that went into the visual style: rendering the game with a lower resolution gives those crunchy pixels, billboarding 2d sprites in 3d gives that DOOM classic look, and the minimal 2 layered lighting approach keeps colors to a minimized color palette.

Your're welcome, that's a cool effect, I would like to try it out next time~

wow, you were quick to watch! thank you.