Your Mission
Customize, test, and improve your own Snake game. Complete the required changes, then search through the code for a more advanced challenge.
Instructions
Download Your Game
- Use the button above to download the Snake game ZIP folder.
- Open your Downloads folder.
- Select Extract All to unzip the folder.
- Open the extracted folder.
- Open the HTML file in the browser.
- Open the same HTML file in a text editor, such as Notepad.
Important: Work from the extracted folder, not from inside the ZIP folder.
Making Changes
After each change:
- Save the file with Ctrl + S.
- Return to the browser.
- Refresh with Ctrl + R.
- Test the game.
- Keep quotation marks around words, colors, and symbols.
Level 1: Developer Settings
Use the variables near the top of the file.
- Change the name of the game.
- Change the snake’s color. Visit https://www.color-hex.com/ for hex color codes.
- Change the game’s color theme.
- Change the game speed.
- Change the default typography.
- Visit Google Fonts.
- Select a font.
- Copy the font family’s exact name.
- Replace “Nunito” with that name.
- Keep the font name inside quotation marks.
Level 2: Change the Fruit
Change the fruit used in the game. The fruit setting is not listed with the other variables, so you must search through the code to find it.
- Search through the provided code.
- Find the apple used in the game.
- Change the apple into an orange.
- Save, refresh, and confirm that an orange appears.
- If you cannot find it, ask the senior station leader for a hint.
Level 3: Bonus Challenges
Complete these only after finishing every required task.
- Change the “Game Over” message.
- Change how many points the orange is worth.
- Find the hidden developer message.
- Have both apples and oranges appear on the screen and give them different point values.