Snake Tutorial

This repository accompanies a video tutorial available on YouTube called Let's build Snake!, and contains the completed code.

To run the game as seen in the tutorial, please run yarn install or npm install from the root directory (where package.json is located).

As in the tutorial, if you'd like to start from scratch, please use Indigo's Giter8 template.

Please note that this repo contains Nix flake files. If you're not a Nix user, you can safely ignore / delete them.

This repo additionally contains a pre-compiled static website version of the game in the docs directory, which is served up by ghpages. It is the result of running ./mill snake.buildGameFull and copying the output into the docs directory.

You can play the game in three ways:

1. Play online: https://purplekingdomgames.github.io/snake-tutorial/
2. Running it yourself as in the tutorial: ./mill snake.runGame
3. Via a local web server:
   1. yarn install
   2. cd docs
   3. npx http-server -c-1
   4. Visit http://localhost:8080, or whatever the output of the previous command says is the correct address.

Below follows the standard README from the Giter8 template.

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Getting started with Mill

The repo contains a version of the millw launch script, so even if you have Mill installed globably, you're advised to use run Mill as ./mill <commands>.

Below is a list of useful commands, including some generally useful ones in case you're new to Mill.

Note that if you're using zsh, you may need to surround argument groups with single quotes, if you have special characters like hypens in your project name.

Quick command aliases

These are defined in the build.sc file in this project, they are a combination of other built-in commands

# Run your game via Electron using fast compilation
./mill snake.runGame

# Run your game via Electron using full compilation and compression
./mill snake.runGameFull

# Build your game as a static website using fast compilation
./mill snake.buildGame

# Build your game as a static website using full compilation and compression
./mill snake.buildGameFull

Basic Mill commands

# Compile everything
./mill __.compile

# Clean the game project
./mill clean snake

# Compile the game
./mill snake.compile

# Run your game modules tests
./mill snake.test

Scala.js commands

# Scala.js fast compile (large file size)
./mill snake.fastLinkJS

# Scala.js full compile and compress
./mill snake.fullLinkJS

Indigo commands

# Build your game as a static website using fast compilation, assumes you have already compiled to Scala.js using fastLinkJS
./mill snake.indigoBuild

# Build your game as a static website using full compilation and compression, assumes you have already compiled to Scala.js using fullLinkJS
./mill snake.indigoBuildFull

# Run your game via Electron using fast compilation, assumes you have already compiled to Scala.js using fastLinkJS
./mill snake.indigoRun

# Run your game via Electron using full compilation and compression, assumes you have already compiled to Scala.js using fullLinkJS
./mill snake.indigoRunFull