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4
Sep
08

Battle of the Snake Clones


There’s are a total of seven Snake clones, based on the classic video game, in the App Store. Which is the best one? Which one recreates the classic version the best? That’s what we’ll be taking a look at, and picking a winner; to see which of the seven available games is the best snake clone. Wikipedia describes the original classic:

Snake is a video game that came out in the late 1970s and has maintained popularity since then, becoming somewhat of a classic. The player controls a long, thin creature, resembling a snake, which roams around on a bordered plane, picking up food (or some other item), trying to avoid hitting its own tail or the “walls” that surround the playing area. Each time the snake eats a piece of food, its tail grows longer, making the game increasingly difficult. The user controls the direction of the snake’s head (up, down, left, or right), and the snake’s body follows. The player cannot stop the snake from moving while the game is in progress.

Here are the games we’ll be looking at:

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25
Aug
08

iSnake in App Store for $2.99


iSnake, dubbed the next-generation version of the classic snake game, is now available in the App Store for $2.99. iSnake has to wiggle in amongst competing snake clones such as Omnomnom ($1.99), TiltSnake (Free), Serpents ($0.99), Snake ($0.99), and Nibbles ($0.99). At $2.99, iSnake is the most expensive of the snake clones, but certainly the best in the visuals department.