SNAKE / BRUTALISM

A Snake game built in Lua with LÖVE2D, designed with a raw brutalist aesthetic — hard edges, heavy typography, red and black palette, and square-pixel everything.

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Features

Game modes

• Classic — standard Snake, walls kill you
• Obstacles — internal walls spawn as you level up (every 40 points, 3 new walls appear)

Setup options (configurable per session)

• Speed increase every 30 points — ON/OFF
• Power-ups (slow time for 5 seconds) — ON/OFF
• Special food (50 pts, disappears after 5s) — ON/OFF
• No walls (wrap-around edges) — ON/OFF

Polish

• 4 brutalist snake skins (BRUTAL, PURPLE, JUNGLE, QUETZAL)
• Particle explosion on eat (matches skin color)
• Screen shake on death
• Countdown on resume from pause (3, 2, 1, GO)
• Animated food (rotating diamond)
• Special food with a live countdown bar
• 8-bit synthesized sound effects (no audio files needed)
• Brutalist UI with Anton, Archivo Black, and Space Mono fonts

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Requirements

• LÖVE2D 11.5 (Windows 64-bit installer or .zip)

No other dependencies. Sound effects are synthesized at runtime — no audio files required.

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Installation

git clone https://github.com/Max-AL05/snake-brutalism
cd snake-brutalism

Make sure your folder structure looks like this:

snake-brutalism/
├── main.lua
├── README.md
├── .luarc.json
└── fonts/
    ├── Anton-Regular.ttf
    ├── ArchivoBlack-Regular.ttf
    └── SpaceMono-Bold.ttf

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Running the game

Option A — drag and drop

Drag the snake-brutalism folder onto love.exe.

Option B — terminal

"C:\Program Files\LOVE\love-11.5-win64.exe" "C:\path\to\snake-brutalism"

Option C — add LÖVE to PATH (recommended)

Add C:\Program Files\LOVE (or wherever you extracted LÖVE) to your system PATH, then run from any terminal:

love snake-brutalism

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Controls

Key	Action
↑ W	Move up
↓ S	Move down
← A	Move left
→ D	Move right
G	Game mode select
S	Skin select
P	Pause / Resume
M	Back to main menu (from pause or game over)
Enter / Space	Confirm / Play / Restart
Escape	Quit

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How to play

1. From the main menu, press G to choose a game mode and configure your session.
2. Set your toggles (speed, power-ups, special food, no walls) and press START GAME.
3. Press S from the main menu to pick a skin before playing.
4. Eat the red food to grow and score points.
5. Blue clock icon = slow time power-up (5 seconds). Gold diamond = special food (50 pts, expires).
6. In Obstacles mode, walls appear as you score — survive as long as you can.

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Project structure

main.lua          — all game logic and rendering (~1500 lines)
fonts/            — three open-source fonts (OFL license)
.luarc.json       — tells the Lua LSP that `love` is a valid global

Everything lives in main.lua. No external dependencies, no build step.

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Font licenses

All fonts are licensed under the SIL Open Font License (OFL):

• Anton — The Anton Project Authors
• Archivo Black — Omnibus-Type
• Space Mono — Colophon Foundry

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Built with

• Lua 5.4
• LÖVE2D 11.5

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SNAKE.BRUTALISM // LUA + LOVE2D