Snake 3D
Micro Focus COBOL Code Contest
Snake is a video game which originated during the late 1970s in arcades and has maintained popularity since then, becoming a classic.
The player controls a long, thin creature, resembling a snake, which roams around on a bordered plane, picking up food trying to avoid hitting its own tail or the "walls" that surround the playing area. Each time the snake eats a piece of food it gooes faster and its tail grows longer, making the game increasingly difficult. The user controls the direction of the snake's head, and the snake's body follows. The player cannot stop the snake from moving while the game is in progress.
A modernized Visual COBOL version ofSnake, by Marco Cavanna (Italy)
This modernized Visual COBOL version of Snake, by Marco Cavanna, took the contest by storm and by unanimous decision is our runaway competition winner. Marco was able to take a classic gaming experience to the next level by going 3 dimensional! Marco created what is probably the world’s first 3-d graphics gaming engine in COBOL.
Staying true to the original game, Marco even incorporated effects in this modern revival. Just as addictive now as it was then, a fantastic twist on a retro gaming classic – we loved it!
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SUCCESS STORIES
Our goal was to convert our old-fashioned, character-based programs developed in RM/Cobol into a modern and graphical application, while preserving the business logic and procedures proven after years and years of code writing. The support we received by GoodWorks was vital for us: they first developed some new basic and complex procedures based on our requisites and then teached us how to best use those tools enabling us to go on managing the project by ourselves.
Giovanni Sartori Borotto,
S.I.PER.