Snake game, attempt of a beginner C/C++

Question

Hello, I’m doing the snake game, but I’m doing it with a matrix, the way I’m doing it is to give prints and system("cls") quickly, but I’d like to know more efficient ways, like by expelling gotoxy Code to print the screen:

int i, j;
cout<<setw(MaxL/2 +5)<<"SNAKE GAME"<<endl;
for(i=0; i<MaxC; i++)
{
    for(j=0; j<MaxL; j++)
    {
        if(j==MaxL-1)
            cout<< ScreenPrint[i][j]<<endl;
        else
            cout<<ScreenPrint[i][j];

    }

}

This way I can easily know the coordinates where everything is and know when I reach the limit: Code that updates the values of the snake according to the keys W,A,S,D: Gety Returns the y value of Snake, Getx returns the x value of Snake Sety() updates coordinates, -1 to do y-- and 1 to do y++

switch(toupper(c))    {
case 'W':
    ScreenPrint[GetY()][GetX()]=' ';
    setY(-1);
    ScreenPrint[GetY()][GetX()]=254;
    break;
case 'A':
    ScreenPrint[GetY()][GetX()]=' ';
    setX(-1);
    ScreenPrint[GetY()][GetX()]=254;
    break;
case 'S':
    ScreenPrint[GetY()][GetX()]=' ';
    setY(1);
    ScreenPrint[GetY()][GetX()]=254;
    break;
case 'D':
    ScreenPrint[GetY()][GetX()]=' ';
    setX(1);
    ScreenPrint[GetY()][GetX()]=254;
    break;
default:
    break;
}

/*  SCREEN LIMIT */
if(GetX()<=0 || GetY()<=0 || GetX()>=MaxL-1 || GetY()>=MaxC-1)
         return -1;

else
    return 1;

To conclude, I would like to know possible libraries to add, different ways to make, new ideas, I still do not know how to use a lot of libraries beyond standards, I would add help. Thank you

Answer 1

You can use the SDL2 to create the window and "draw" the sprites on the screen, it has audio support, input devices like keyboard, mouse and joystick, graphic Apis like Vulkan, Opengl and Directx, I believe that with only it you already have enough to create your clone, 2 examples of Snake clones with SDL:

• https://github.com/mahiuchun/Snake-SDL
• https://github.com/spajus/sdl2-snake