CLI Snake

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A classic Snake game developed in C++ to run in terminal. The game is built using the ncurses library to handle the terminal display and input. The game is designed to be lightweight and with a simple interface and controls.

Game Elements
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Generation of random game sets or events
- The apples are generated at random (uniformly distributed) around the map.
- mt19937 pseudo-random generator is used.
Data structures for storing game status
- Class Snake, will store all the properties of the current snake.
- Class SaveAndLoad, for save and load methods.
Dynamic memory management
- new operator is used to allocate memory on the free store for Snake and SaveAndLoad objects.
- delete operator is called to restore the memory allocated when the game ends.
File input/output
- The pause menu provides the option to save current game status.
- At start menu, the saved game can be loaded from the log.txt file, and continue to play.
- After the game ends, the score will be recorded in the leaderboard.txt file.
- Files are saved under log directory.