1 - What is Snackware?
Snackware is a special kind of game in that there is no human intervention (at least directly) .it was made to create a competition among programmers.
2 - How to "play" Snackware?
The snackware players are programmers that create the intelligence routines that will control the serpent (the "player" of the game) .
In other words: the players are "softwares" and to play you writes a software that "plays the game"
3 - What development level is it in ?
Snackware is in 0.3a alpha version, maid for tests.
A release of the development version skeleton is waited for brief .
4 - Who is developing it ?
At now, only me, myself and i ..
Any kind of help are welcome .Join the development team and lets "fight". :)
5 - Transtations
Translantion to correct english is wanted . :)
Translations to any languagues are welcome, but i cant do that by myself.
6 - Programming languages and plattaforms
The snackware alpha version was tested only in gcc-linux, but it will probably compile without changes in bsd's and could be backported for dos with minimum effort.
The version being projected will have a client/server aproach so that engine and clients can run in machines of different architectures linked in a network
7 - How to write a snack ?
You can read the one with comes in the distribution and change it. Documentation about it is coming, be patient.
8 - Snacks for alpha engine will run will beta engine ?
Not without small changes
9 - How to contribute
If you can use cvs. ask for cvs access .If not, send your contribution (path, documentation, code, etc) for snackware@uolcom.br
10 - Support
Subscrible to the mailing list and ask for help :)
11 - License
It's GPL'ed - free for fun :)