Okay, so here’s my first ever Ludum Dare entry. I’ve embraced my inner 12 year old and made poop a central focus of the game, along with eating apples and cake (It’s greedy, I swear! The cake is stolen.) It started out as a cliché snake game in which the snake goes around eating things to grow, and pooping them out. But a bug in the pooping code gave the snake diarrhea, and it was so hilarious I had to make it a feature.
In the game you control a greedy pooping snake that will eat anything, but if it eats the walls, itself, or its own poop, it dies. The apples are healthy, and make the snake poop little poops. But the cake is a lie, and will give the snake the runs, which gets worse as the snake grows. The controls are simply the arrow keys. The animation is a bit jerky and the game is slow at first, but gets fairly challenging as the snake goes faster and there’s more poop.

The game uses Allegro 5, which is still in development so you have to download it with subversion in order to build the game. I’ve only built it with Linux, so the build system is likely broken on other platforms. Should be a cinch to port though.

Here’s the source:

poopsnake.tar.gz