This is a project made by 3 students from the University of Bologna for their Programming course. The given guidelines regarding the project were to create a simple terminal-based snake videogame in the c++ programming language, specifically using the graphics library curses/ncurses.h and the basic programming concepts learnt during the lectures.

The project has been structured and developed follwoing the 'MVC' programming framework, and its core is in the /src folder where:

• the main.cpp file is the starting point of the Snake Game program
• the /game folder is where all the necessary classes for the logic and control sections(following the MVC framework) are stored
• the /graphics folder is where all the necessary classes for the various graphical components are stored

Following are the steps required to play the game:

• Make sure to have installed the ncurses library on your machine
• Make sure to have correctly configured the GCC compiler(compiler used to create and test this project)
• Install and configure CMake to be used to build the project and being able to run it (i.g. if using the VsCode environment, there is the microsoft extention named 'CMake Tools' to make this process easier and faster)

The project can be compiled thanks to MSYS:

• Install MSYS
• Add the /usr/bin/ path, inside of the MSYS folder, to your environmental variables
• Run the MSYS terminal (the pink one) and execute the command pacman -S gcc ncurses-devel base-devel
• Now you can setup the project using the MSYS gcc executable

After correctly building the project(without errors) using CMake, run the project and the program will show the following GUI on the terminal screen:

After running the project, the user will be shown the main terminal screen where he can:

• Click Play
  • after clicking Play the user will be shown the list of the available levels, and by clicking one of them he will start playing
  • by clicking 'q' on the keyboard the user will be able to pause the game, then the options 'Resume' and 'Exit' will be available to him.
• Click the currently set difficulty set the game difficulty
  • by clicking the second button, the user will be able to set the desired difficulty level('Normal', 'Hard' or 'Easy')
• Click Leaderboard
  • by clicking this third button, a new screen containing a list of levels(grouped based on the 3 different difficulties) and the points gained so far in each of these levels will be shown
  • by clicking 'q' on the keyboard the user will be able to go back to the home screen
• Click Exit
  • if this last button is clicked, the program will be closed

• Caprini Federico aintDatCap
• Grillini Leonardo LeonardoGrillini
• Hossain Ababil AbaSkillzz