Describe the overall concept of your artwork
The idea for my artwork came from a conversation with my friend, I felt that I wanted to start looking into gamifying my code and so she gave me the idea to do the snake game! I looked for photos online to kind of get an idea of what it would look like. Below is one of the photos that I used as inspiration.
This photo made the concept feel more approachable as I knew I could just use built-in shape functions for the snake, adding more as the snake gets larger. I did want to add some of my own touch so I decided to use fruit images for the food. I imported 4 pictures, orange, strawberry, apple, and banana, and randomly spawned the fruits for the snake to eat. Including an array in my code was easy as I used it to store the 4 images of the fruits. I also knew that I would use a class for the snake as it had many functions unique to it, however, I did struggle a bit to get started on the code for the class. I started by watching the videos on Classes by The Coding Train which helped me wrap my mind around the idea. I also found that he had a video where he coded the snake game as well, so I watched a bit of it and used his code as reference for a few of the snake functions. I also referred to the p5.js reference page to understand the built-in functions he used in his code, and also made some of my own edits and changes to the food aspect of the game.
Embedded Sketch
Use your arrow keys to move the snake!