[epidemian]

Yes, i thought of doing that. The problem is that, while it would definitely help on the early game, it would also mess things badly on the late game. As you snake grows, it'll take more and more space on the grid, and you'll start seeing more and more janky whitespace-replacement characters.

The game gets faster as you progress, so it's definitely not a good idea to make it jankyer when you're try-harding it :P

I'd love to know of a way of "fixing" this jankyness issue properly. Without admitting defeat and rendering to some other text-admitting output, like the page <title>, as this oher snake game that was recently posted on Reddit does: https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1n9z77e/snake_in_th...

But, for now, if you're actually trying to get a high score, i think the best approach is rendering the URL on page, by clicking on the "?"

[worldsayshi]

You could also flip the palette at half point.