One of the cool things about the website is the ease of forking snippets.
When the Word of Notch gave information on how input would work, previous code written using alternative schemes broke.
The snake game, http://0x10co.de/cdbk1, was one of these programs. However, it wasn't too long before people started hacking on it and started forking the code. Here's a version at the bottom of the fork tree:
One draw back is that the newer versions don't show up on the top programs page (since people find out about the original first, and the fixes later) and give the illusion that website doesn't work properly.
When the Word of Notch gave information on how input would work, previous code written using alternative schemes broke.
The snake game, http://0x10co.de/cdbk1, was one of these programs. However, it wasn't too long before people started hacking on it and started forking the code. Here's a version at the bottom of the fork tree:
http://0x10co.de/hbcdo
One draw back is that the newer versions don't show up on the top programs page (since people find out about the original first, and the fixes later) and give the illusion that website doesn't work properly.