🎲 Snake & Ladders in C

Welcome to the Snake & Ladders by DANY — a lightweight, fun, and interactive CLI-based board game written in pure C, designed to bring the classic childhood game to your terminal! 🐍🪜

Features

• Two-Player Gameplay → Player 1 (♞) vs Player 2 (♛)

• Dice Roll Simulation 🎲 with Unicode dice symbols ⚀ ⚁ ⚂ ⚃ ⚄ ⚅

• Colorful Console Board → ASCII grid with ladders 🪜 and snakes 🐍

• Interactive Console UI → Centered, styled text with escape colors

• Simple Rules → Roll 6 to start, reach 100 to win 🏆

• Cross-Platform → Works on Windows/Linux (Windows requires conio.h)

Preview

Key Action

SPACE Start the game ENTER Roll the dice 🎲 6 (roll) Required to start movement 🪜 Ladder Jump forward 🐍 Snake Slide backward

Tech Stack

• C (ISO C90 style)

• ASCII + Unicode → for board, snakes, ladders, dice

• conio.h (getch()) → for key handling on Windows

• time.h + rand() → for dice randomization

• ANSI Escape Codes → for colorful console output

Requirements

• Any C Compiler (MinGW, TDM-GCC, Turbo C, etc.)

• Windows/Linux terminal (with UTF-8 support)

• ANSI escape codes enabled (system("chcp 65001 > nul"); is already handled in code)

Acknowledgements

• Designed & Developed by DANY
• Inspired by the classic Snake & Ladders board game 🐍