The Vircon32: C API reference page may be helpful - http://www.vircon32.com/api.html

• There should be a sprite for at least a background, the snake's body and the food if you want to make your snake just a normal looking square.
• Some good free sprite software's would be GIMP , Microsoft Paint, or maybe even Photoshop on a school computer.
• A link to GIMP download: https://www.gimp.org/downloads/
• You could also have a death screen for when your snake dies.

Another good option for designing your snake is downloading a photo off the internet(probably an animated/cartoon one). I personally got the following photo “https://pngtree.com/freepng/cartoon-snake_6160039.html” and cropped just the head. I then designed the body off of the colors from the head.

There is obviously your arrow key inputs but there are other buttons available as well. At least for gamepad(0) we have button_?_ = ? for the average keyboard:

• A = X
• B = Z
• X = S
• Y = A
• L = W
• R = W
• Start = Enter Key

If you ar just trying to make the input based off of your arrow keys you can simply copy the same setup:

// Buttons to move up, down, left, and right
bool mRight = (gamepad_right() == 1);
bool mLeft = (gamepad_left() == 1);
bool mUp = (gamepad_up() == 1);
bool mDown = (gamepad_down() == 1);

NOTE: Youll want to do this in your game loop (the while loop) and make sure inside of main but outside of you game loop have the following:

// Selects keyboard as gamepad to use for input
select_gamepad(0);

When making you gamepad you'll make gamepad_direction values, WalkX and WalkY for example purposes.

• If WalkX < 0 then that mean you're going left.
• If WalkX > 0 then that mean you're going right.
• If WalkY < 0 then that mean you're going up.
• If WalkY > 0 then that mean you're going down.

With those you would probably make it so that when WalkX < 0 var = 1. And then do:

if( var == 1 ) {
  Snake.X -= PlayerSpeed;
}

to make your snake constantly move after pressing an arrow key.

you could also set up a switch and do something like the following:

case RIGHT:
     SHead.X += speed;
     Break;

Things to note before doing the above. Youll need to create global variables LEFT, RIGHT, UP, and DOWN. In the given example there is a struct named Shead (Stands for snake head). You will also need the following:

 // The direction is updated based on given input
if (mRight && SHead.Direction != LEFT)
{
    SHead.Direction = RIGHT;
}

The “&& SHead.Direction != LEFT” prevents the snake from going back on its self.

The screen on vircon32 is 640 by 360, however, you do not have to type these out every time you make a game in vircon32 as they are stored in the screen_width and screen_height variables respectively. One way of bounds checking is to see where you are about to spawn the snake's head, if it is within the screen window then it is fine. However, if it is outside that window then game over.

you need the string.h header file

make a variable for the score

make an array to display the score

use the itoa function to convert the data, then use the print_at function to print it on the screen.

you can use the Vircon32 tutorials as a guide to help build and display the strings: https://github.com/vircon32/ConsoleSoftware/tree/main/Tutorials/WritingText