VB.NET - Snake? Game - Development

Question

I am currently in the process of making a snake game using VB.NET... I was just wanting to gather ideas on how to do the body of the snake...

Currently I have a class called SnakeBody which contains the following code:

Public Class SnakeBody
    Dim yCoord As Integer
    Dim xCoord As Integer
    Dim body As PictureBox
End Class

I guess what I am asking is if Dim body As PictureBox a logical thing to put in my class. As in, I am not sure if that is the correct thing to do? To create the actual body of the snake I will have an array of these SnakeBody objects.

If `'Dim body As PictureBox is valid How do I reproduce the same picturebox everytime my snake eats something?

I hop this makes sense... Thanks Alot

Answer 1

Well, it is okay but it is not going to work well in practice. PictureBox is a window, when snakes overlap each other, you'll obscure part of them with a rectangle. You'll essentially see one snake in a rectangle with bits of other snakes peeking out past that rectangle.

Use the form's Paint event to draw the snakes, don't use a control.

Answer 2

Don't use Winforms. Use vb.net and silverlight, you can design a template for the snake , you have silverlights sophisticated built in animation. It will be so much easier and better and it will run on a PC and Mac.