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24 alternatives to Snake, the Twitterbot – an experiment in game design
In this blog post, we present a port of the Snake game to Twitter. We detail some of the game design choices we made, along with code and explanations.
Snake is a playable game implemented as a Twitter bot, where users control a snake that must eat to grow while avoiding its own body and walls. The project serves as an interactive experiment in game design, presented… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Snake, the Twitterbot – an experiment in game design launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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URL Snake▲114Just a little demo I made of a fully functioning game of snake encoded entirely within a valid url (around 1033 bytes of code encoded into a 1464 byte url).
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · hipstersnake.com · its alternatives →
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A hidden game for your web inspector
2019 · matthew.rayfield.world · its alternatives →
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A replayable arcade shooter where you control a snake of heroes. - a327ex/SNKRX
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Eat food, grow and don't run into yourself.
2016 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Plays snake collectively on Twitter. Contribute to yrochat/twitterplayssnake development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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In browser PPO training demo, made possible by tinygrad: TinyJit -> WebGPU kernels. Requires WebGPU.
May 2026 · ppo.gradexp.xyz · its alternatives →
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🐍 Play snake using your face! ⬅️😃➡️. Contribute to paruby/snake-face development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Play Snaketron in the browser: open-arena multiplayer snake with orbs, boost, and a live public room.
2012 · snaketron.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · tinyurl.com · its alternatives →
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Simple implementation of an AI in Snake. Contribute to sacert/Snake-Star development by creating an account on GitHub.
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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