🐍Classic Snake Game 🚀built using Amazon Q CLI🎮

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As a kid, I spent hours playing the classic Snake Game. Every time the snake ate, it felt like I was feeding a digital pet — one I had to grow, protect, and eventually... mourn when it hit a wall.
Today, I’m proud to share a fully enhanced Snake Game that I built using Python, Pygame, and Amazon Q CLI — my first step in blending nostalgia with innovation.

🛠 Why I Chose Snake Game?

Because it’s not just a game — it’s a journey of logic, memory, and reflexes.
I wanted to rebuild what I loved most, but this time with:

✅ Real-time gameplay
✅ Sound effects (eat, game over, bg music)
✅ Pause/Resume, Restart, and Music On/Off
✅ Auto high score tracking
✅ Clean UI and responsive controls

🤖 AI Helped Me With:

💡 Effective Prompting Techniques
Instead of just saying “build a snake game”, I learned to guide Amazon Q with prompts like:
"Add pause and resume buttons, implement a music toggle switch, and store the highest score in a local file."

🧠 Solving Classic Problems
From boundary collisions to body overlap detection, Amazon Q helped optimize classic logic with modern Python structures like Vector2.

⚙ Automation Magic
From writing boilerplate code, adding sound logic, to generating README.md and GitHub workflows — everything felt 10x faster with the right prompts.

🔗 GitHub Repo

👨‍💻 Tech Stack:
Python, Pygame, GitHub, Amazon Q, VS Code

📸 What I Made

🔊 Real-time game with full audio
🎮 Snake movement & control logic
📝 Auto score saving and clean UI
💡 Amazon Q CLI + VS Code — Perfect combo

🧠 Lessons Learned

AI doesn’t replace creativity — it amplifies it.

Amazon Q CLI truly shines when used iteratively and conversationally.

Even retro games can be built smarter, faster, and cleaner with the right tools.

💡 Final Thoughts

This experience made me realize that AI-enhanced development is not just faster — it’s more fun. Whether you're building a game or a full-stack app, tools like Amazon Q CLI bring productivity and joy back into the process.

🔁 Would love your thoughts or feedback!
⭐ Also open to suggestions on what to build next — AI-powered games? Chatbot integrations?

👤 About Me
Akash Gupta

Passionate about game development and automation

Love bringing AI into real-world coding workflows