There are many variants of Snake, a game popularized on Nokia telephones, such as the 3310 and 3330. The Fading Snake version is original: you have a few seconds to feed the snake before the interface disappears.
It delighted owners of a Nokia phone at the turn of the 2000s. The snake game (Snake) marked an entire teenage generation at the time. This is also what made the success of the Nokia 3310 and 3330, in addition to their pleasant design with no apparent antenna, their foolproof solidity and their indestructible battery.
Twenty years later, we still find in application stores and on the web all sorts of variations of the Snake. Another sign of his immense popularity and the impact he had on the collective imagination. Google had created a small easter egg on Maps for April 1st. Facebook also allowed you to play a game in Messenger.
A snake that disappears if you don’t eat
Sometimes, we come across a pretty nugget. While browsing Reddit, we found a version of the Snake called Fading Snake. The object of the game is exactly the same: you have to maneuver your snake around the playing area, without touching the walls or your body, and swallow the food to grow, in order to reach the maximum size. The more you get there, the more your points increase.
But in Fading Snake, you have an additional constraint: the opacity of the game gradually decreases (from 100% to 0% in a few seconds) if you don’t eat the food fast enough. They are the ones that allow you to punctually enhance the opacity and, therefore, to see where the walls, the snake and the food are. In short, don’t hang around.
Think it’s easy? Of course, the first seconds are simple: the snake isn’t too big to move. But, you can sometimes get tricked if the next food to swallow appears a bit far away and is near a wall. Are you going to assess the right moment when you have to make a 90 degree turn so as not to hit the wall?
To test yourself, just press the arrow keys on your keyboard (which might remind you of the buttons on your good old Nokia 3330). To restart a game, just press the “Space” bar. Unfortunately, the game is not currently adapted to smartphone touch screens. A shame, one might say, for a game popularized by mobiles.
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