Devlog #1 ahhhhh it’s a snake

Playing games has gotten a little stale for me and I needed something to keep my mind busy as I go about my day looking after an eight week old and a three year old. This idea came to me when I was watching cartoons with my three year old son. There’s …


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Playing games has gotten a little stale for me and I needed something to keep my mind busy as I go about my day looking after an eight week old and a three year old. This idea came to me when I was watching cartoons with my three year old son. There's an annoying youtube video in which a snake starts eating everything. I was still partially thinking about work, medical NLP stuffs. So I thought about a snake that ate letters and did stuffs.

🛠 What I Did

Quick bullet list of work:

  • Drafted up a design document using gpt for some back and forth and idea expansion
  • Implemented basic MVP using cursor free - snake controller, tile spawner
  • Did some basic art assets
  • Signed up to cursor pro for gemini 2.5 pro, by far my favourite llm to code with
  • Warmed up to unity, it's been several years

🤔 Thoughts & Challenges

  • Just unity, it's fiddly when you're rusty

🔮 What’s Next

  • Resolve all current bugs, tiles are overlapping on the body, they're all black.
  • Sort out rotation of my new snake face.
  • Overhaul the basic game to use a scrabble board and spawn tiles on the spaces
  • Get some initial sound effects
  • Implement game over panel
  • Implement splash screen

📸 Screenshot or Gif

I'm really proud of this, despite it being so basic. I think it conveys a minimalist snakes face that ties into the theme of letters
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Thanks for reading! 🐍📚


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