Add the Snake to the Board

Learn how to add the board and a snake to the canvas using JavaScript.

Implement: Add the snake to the board

First, let's create the board and the snake. To do this, we will follow the steps below:

  • Create a canvas in HTML and set a background image for the snake game.

  • Create a snake object. A snake will be drawn as continuous rectangles. Each rectangle will denote one block of the snake. We will set the initial values to create a snake on the board (background image). We will set the initial length, the color, the initial direction in which the snake moves, and all the positions of the continuous rectangles denoting the snake. We will use arrays and objects to perform this operation. The snake object is shown below:

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