This project is intended to be a simple Snake Clone in C++ (Hence the name Cnake) for learning purposes, to get familiar with C++ Game Development, the Vulkan Graphics API and Game Engine Development. I might expand on it with some features and/or changes compared to the classic Snake gameplay loop. Along the way, I'll be documenting knowledge I find valuable, especially that which isn't all too clear in other available documentation.
| Element | Status |
|---|---|
| Project Structure | Done |
| Snake Asset | Done |
| Set up Building w/ PreMake | Done |
| Draw a Window with GLFW | Done |
| Basic Engine logic | In Progress |
| Basic Movement & collision | Not Started |
| Scoring System | Not Started |
| Gameplay Expansion | Not Started |
These are all my tools of choice to build this project.
C++ is not only a language that I was already partly familiar with, but also a great language that facilitates low-level control, while not making you manage all of the memory manually, so it's fairly easy to build a memory-safe application. I want to get better at C++ within Game Development, specifically.
I chose the Vulkan API since I'd read that you can gain quite a significant amount of control over the performance of the application. Plus, my goal is to learn Vulkan in order to use it to build larger-scale 3D applications.
I'm using GFLW to draw and manage the window, since it makes my life easier and I don't have to touch Win32.
GLM is what I've ran with for graphics arithmetics operations.
Building cross-plaform and cross-IDE is a fairly simple task with PreMake and I like the fact you write in lua. Also I've heard many people prefer it over CMake, so I'll try it here. Also always good to know the ins and outs of a build system.
For editing text, I use neovim with my custom configuration, specifically for C++ I use clang as an LSP and write a simple compile_flags.txt with the include folders, which clang can pick up on. Then, when I want to debug or compile, I simply run premake5 vs2022 and load up the .vcxproj in Visual Studio 2022.