Game Dev Journey

Create a new Godot Project

Start a New 2D Scene

Rename the Node2D to Main

Go to Project -> Project Settings

Find Display -> Window

Set Viewport Height and Width to 1000

Select the Main node

Add another Node2D as a child

Rename it to Snake

Add a ColorRect Node as a child of Snake

Rename it to Head

Select the Head

Change the color to Green

Select the Main Node

Add another ColorRect node as child

Rename it to Food

Select the Food node

Change the color to Red

Select the Snake node

Attach a new script

Set up the required variables

Note that grid size refers to the size of each cell of the grid

It is the step value

Create a function to move the snake

The snake will move by one cell

In the direction which it is facing

In the process function

Set up the input to move the snake

Note that the snake cannot reverse

If going up, snake cannot turn into itself

and go down

Same for left and right

Now create ticking movement

The snake should move one cell

Every 0.2 seconds

Test the game - the snake should move and be controllable.

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