Snake (Scratch Edition)

About Snake (Scratch Edition)

This is a clean, no-frills version of the classic Snake game built on Scratch — MIT’s free coding platform that lets anyone create and share interactive projects. The rules are exactly what you remember from the original Nokia phone game: you steer a growing snake around a board with your arrow keys, eat the apples that appear to extend its length and rack up points, and try not to run into your own tail or the walls. Each apple grows the snake by one segment, so the longer you survive the harder it gets to plan moves without trapping yourself.

What makes this version interesting is its origin. It was built by a Scratch community member named 543017 in 2019 as a learning project, and shared publicly under the Creative Commons BY-SA license. That means anyone can play it, reuse it, or look at the source code — Scratch even has a “see inside” button right above the game that opens the visual programming editor where you can study how every piece works. For anyone curious about how a simple game like Snake is actually built, it is a small window into game development.

Note that because this is hosted on Scratch’s servers, you will see a Scratch banner at the top of the game frame and a play button overlay before the project starts. These are part of how Scratch presents all its embedded projects. Once you press play, the game runs exactly like the original. It is a small palette cleanser among more polished games — a reminder that the simplest formulas often age the best.