A classic Snake Game built using Python and Pygame, featuring a custom home screen, background music, and highscore tracking.

Grow your snake by eating apples, avoid collisions, and try to beat your highscore!

The Snake Game is a Python-based console and GUI hybrid application using Pygame. Players control a snake to collect apples, growing in size with each apple eaten. The game tracks score and highscore and includes:

• Custom home screen and game-over screen
• Background music and sound effects
• Real-time score and highscore display
• Collision detection with walls and self
• Smooth gameplay with increasing snake length

This project demonstrates Python fundamentals such as loops, conditionals, functions, file handling, and basic game logic.

• Python 3.10 or above
• Supported Operating Systems:
  • Windows
  • Linux
  • macOS

• pygame
• random
• os
• sys

No external libraries beyond Pygame are required.

• Loops (while)
• Conditional Statements (if, elif, else)
• Functions
• File Handling (Highscore.txt)
• User Input Handling
• Random Module (random.randint)
• Pygame Graphics and Sound
• Game Logic and Collision Detection

1. Run the game.
2. The home screen appears with background music.
3. Press Enter to start the game.
4. Control the snake using the arrow keys:
   • ⬆ Up
   • ⬇ Down
   • ⬅ Left
   • ➡ Right
5. Eat apples to grow your snake and increase your score.
6. Avoid colliding with the walls or your own tail.
7. When the game ends:
   • Your score and highscore are displayed
   • Press Enter to restart

The highscore is stored in Highscore.txt and persists across game sessions.

cd snake-game

Make sure Python 3.10+ is installed.

Run the game from the terminal or command prompt:

Alternatively, you can create an executable .exe using PyInstaller:

pyinstaller --onefile --windowed --icon snake_icon.ico
--add-data "apple.png;."
--add-data "snakehome.png;."
--add-data "snakebackground.jpg;."
--add-data "Snakeend.png;."
--add-data "02. Clair-Obscur.mp3;."
--add-data "gameover.wav;."
--add-data "Highscore.txt;."
snake_game.py

The .exe will be generated in the dist/ folder.

snakehome.png – Home screen

snakebackground.jpg – Main game background

Snakeend.png – Game-over screen

apple.png – Food for the snake

2. Clair-Obscur.mp3 – Background music

gameover.wav – Game-over sound effect

Highscore.txt – Stores

Aeshan Chowdhury