Snake Feast

The snake game built for developers — play it without leaving VS Code.

Take a break. Eat some food. Don't hit the wall.

🎮 What is Snake Feast?

Snake Feast is a fully-featured, modern Snake game that runs as a panel right inside Visual Studio Code. No browser tab, no alt-tab, no distractions — just open it, play it, close it, and get back to coding.

Built with Phaser 3 and the VS Code Webview API, it has everything the classic game is missing: six unique food types with real effects, power-ups that change how the game plays, a combo multiplier for chaining eats, synthesized sound effects (no audio files), and per-difficulty high scores that save to your VS Code profile.

One-click launch from the status bar at the bottom of your screen. Your high scores persist across sessions automatically.

✨ Features at a glance

🚀 Getting Started

Install from the VS Code Marketplace:

1. Open VS Code
2. Press Ctrl+Shift+X (or Cmd+Shift+X on Mac) to open Extensions
3. Search for Snake Feast
4. Click Install

Launch the game:

• Click 🐍 Snake Feast in the bottom status bar, or
• Open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P) and run Snake Feast: Start

The game opens in a VS Code panel. Pick your difficulty, choose your snake color, and hit START GAME.

🕹 How to Play

Goal: eat food to grow longer and score points.
      don't hit the walls or your own body.

Controls

Tip: The snake speeds up as it grows. Shorter bursts of play can score more points than reckless growth.

🍎 Food Types

Six types of food appear on the board at once. Learning what each one does is the key to high scores.

Poison tip: If your snake is very short, poison can be fatal. If you're long, eating it can buy you space to maneuver — sometimes worth the −3.

🔥 Combo System

Eat food quickly in succession to build a combo multiplier:

First eat         →  ×1  (normal)
Second eat fast   →  ×2  (double points)
Third eat fast    →  ×3  (triple points)
...up to...       →  ×8  (maximum)

The combo resets if you wait too long between eats. Magnet food is extremely powerful for combo-chaining because it pulls other food toward the snake head.

Example: Eating a bonus food (+5) at ×3 combo gives +15 points instead of +5.

⚡ Power-Ups

Active power-ups are shown as badges in the bottom-left corner of the game area.

🏆 Difficulty Modes

Each difficulty has its own separate high score. Resetting one mode does not affect the others.

Speed also increases as your snake grows longer — Hard mode with a length-30 snake is a genuine challenge.

💾 High Scores

Your best score for each difficulty is saved automatically to your VS Code global state — it persists across sessions, workspace changes, and VS Code restarts.

• Reset Best button in the top bar resets only the currently selected mode
• Switching mode in the menu updates the displayed best score immediately

🎵 Sound

All sounds are synthesized using the Web Audio API — no audio files are downloaded or bundled. Every action has a distinct sound:

Mute and unmute with the 🔊 button. Mute state is saved per session.

📸 Screenshots

❓ FAQ

Does it work offline? Yes — the game is entirely self-contained. No internet connection needed.

Will it slow down my editor? No. The game only runs when the panel is open and visible. When you switch to a code tab, the Webview is hidden and rendering pauses automatically.

My high score disappeared. High scores are saved to VS Code's globalState. If you reinstall the extension or reset VS Code's extension data, scores will reset. This is a VS Code platform limitation.

Can I move the panel? Yes — drag the Snake Feast tab to any panel group, or move it to a split editor on the right while your code is on the left.

The game is too fast on Hard. That's intentional 😄 — try Medium and build up combos to maximize your score without dying to speed.

I want to suggest a feature or report a bug. Open an issue on GitHub. PRs are welcome.

🛠 Extension Details

🔗 Links

• VS Code Marketplace
• Open VSX
• GitHub Repository
• Report an Issue
• Play in Browser
• Play on Wavedash

📄 License

GNU General Public License v3.0 — see LICENSE for details.