Neon Snake
The classic, rebuilt with a phosphor glow, buffered input and a speed curve that keeps tightening.
- genre
- Arcade
- engine
- Canvas
- status
- playable
- input
- keyboard · touch · gamepad
- controls
- Arrows / WASD steer · P pause · R restart · swipe on touch
- year
- 2026
- runs on
- any modern browser
Sound starts muted. Toggle it in the player bar.
▶ play
Devlog
Snake is the first thing a lot of us ever programmed, which makes it a good test of feel. This version is about the small things:
- Buffered input. Up to two turns queue up between steps, so a fast "up, left" lands as two moves instead of one being eaten. Reversing straight into yourself is ignored.
- A speed curve that keeps tightening. Every bite takes 2.4 ms off the step time, from 125 ms down to a floor of 58 ms.
- Interpolated movement. The board is a grid, but the body slides between cells every frame, so it reads as motion rather than ticks.
- Phosphor glow, one pass. The whole body glows in a single shadowed fill, not per segment, which keeps it cheap on phones.
- Portrait aware. On tall screens the board flips to 18 × 28 so you're not playing on a strip.
Screenshots
Changelog
- v1.1 · 2026-10-22 · Sound effects (muted by default), gamepad support, self-hosted fonts, now served from play.dunoralabs.xyz.
- v1.0 · 2026-10-10 · First playable build: buffered input, speed curve, swipe controls, best score saved locally.
Built with
- Canvas 2D, no libraries
- Web Audio for the bleeps (synthesised at runtime, no sample files)
- The lab bridge (
lab-bridge.js) for pause, mute and gamepad from the player overlay
Credits & licences
- Code, art and sound: original work, made for Dunora Labs. [EDIT: licence for the game code, e.g. MIT or all rights reserved]
- Space Grotesk font: Florian Karsten, SIL Open Font License 1.1
- JetBrains Mono font: JetBrains, SIL Open Font License 1.1