Retro Snake game with 2 player option published

Hi Everyone!

I am happy to share my first full game with you! The game itself might be small, but the journey that took me here is not.

I've always loved playing video games, from oldschool Nokia phone and Flash games to modern AAA games. Beside that, as a programmer making games was always my dream. However when I started working on projects I quickly realised that making games takes a lot of effort and sometimes might not be as fun as it seemed. That's why I often started to work on a game and that I never finished.

This little snake game is one of these games. I started this project because as a web developer I was always curious how a game is made in HTML. I made the core of the game based on a tutorial on Youtube, and altough I had a lot of ideas what I would like to implement in the game, I stopped working on the project because I lost motivation.

I had some similar projects as well and I started to be furious with myself that I always lost motivation and never finished one. Once I got to a point that I can't let myself continue this, so I made up my mind to finish the projects I started. That took me back to this snake game.

Finally I implemented everything I wanted:

• option to go through walls
• 2 player option
• adjustable speed and map size
• every 10th apple to be special
• pixel art style.

Altough this game is small it required a lot of effort to finish, especially because I had to work on it after work. I came across a few bugs and technical difficulties which suprised me that a game like this can be this challenging to make sometimes. 

Despite all this, I learned a lot from it and it felt good to show it to my friends and family and they liked it.