Python Snake Game

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Purpose

A classic arcade game is a deceptively good test of fundamentals: real-time input, game state, collision logic, and rendering all have to work together at speed. This one raised the bar by rendering the entire game in a plain text console, with no graphics engine to lean on.

Description

We built a fully playable Snake game that draws its board, snake, and food as colored blocks straight to the terminal, redrawing every frame in real time. Arrow-key input drives movement while the game handles growth on eating, randomized food placement, and collision against the walls and the snake's own body. It's a compact, single-file build that squeezes a complete interactive game out of nothing but console output, a neat proof of doing more with less.