# Controls

## Movement
w, k, Arrow-Up
a, h, Arrow-Left
s, j, Arrow-Down
d, l, Arrow-Right
Hold direction key to boost

## Specials
0-9: Apply current special to player with that number
q: Discard current special

## Meta
Space: Respawn/Redraw
Esc, C-c: Disconnect
n: change nick (only available while dead)
h: display this help text


# Specials
Eating food can give you one of these specials:

Boost:         Force target to boost
ClearSpecials: Remove target's specials
Direction:     Randomly change target's direction
Drunk:         Force target to sidestep randomly
Foodmageddon:  Spawn a large number of food that do not give specials
Invert:        Invert target's controls
Invicible:     Invincible snakes can cut through other snakes
Longer:        Increase target's length
MirrorWalls:   Mirror position when moving through game border
Poison:        Poison all food, poisoned food halves a snake's length
Portal:        Place a portal at your's and target's head position
Reverse:       Switch head and tail of target snake
SolidWalls:    Die when attempting to move through game border
Switch:        Switch snake with target player
Teleport:      Teleport target's head to a random position
Thump:         Force target to wobble back and forth
Tunnel:        Target moves underground to avoid collision


# Board

 | Status Message
 v
┌Player 1 has reached a new record length of 57.───────────┐ Players:
│                                                          │ 1 foobar
│                                                          │ 2 unknown
│                  ██                                      │ † baz
│                  ^                  | Player 1           │
│             Food |                  v                    │
│                                    █1                    │
│                                    █1                    │
│                                    █1                    │
│                                    █1                    │
│                                    █1                    │
│                                    █1                    │
│                                    █1                    │
│        | Player 2                  █1                    │
│        v                           █1                    │
│       █2                           █1                    │
│       █2                           █1                    │
│       █2                           █1                    │
│       █2█2█2█2█2█2█2█2█2█2█2       █1                    │
│                           █2       █1                    │
│                           █2       █1█1█1█1█1█1█1        │
│                           █2                   █1        │
│                           █2                   █1        │
│                                                █1        │
│█1█1█1█1█1█1█1█1█1█1                            █1█1█1█1█1│
│                                                          │
│                                                          │
│                                                          │
│                                                          │
└Poison,Direction,Longer,Reverse,Drunk,Longer──────────────┘
 ^
 | Current Special, Special List


# Game Modes
There are different game modes. Every server runs in one of these modes.

## Freeplay
This is a sandbox game mode. You can join anytime and respawn as often as you
like.

## Deathmatch
Starts with a 20 second grace period, where everyone can join and respawn.
After the grace period, respawning is disabled until all but one player are
dead. When a match is over statistics of the match are shown and the next grace
period begins.


# Misc

## Nicknames
  You can give your nickname on the telnet command-line with the -l option.
  You can configure telnet to send a name with every connection by adding this
  line to your ~/.telnetrc:
DEFAULT environ define USER karl_heinz

  If you connect with the name 'spec', you will be put into spectator mode and
  you can not spawn any snakes.

## Bot API
  Telnetsnake supports scripted clients by providing json encoded game state
  updates. To make your bot join, have it connect to the servers plugin port.
  This port is typically the one above the port shown in the lobby or used to
  connect a telnet client. Send two lines, one containing the string 'register'
  and the second one containing the string 'bot' or 'bot_<name>' to have the bot
  called <name>.
  Your bot will now receive gzip compressed lines of json encoded updates. See
  bot.go in the telnetsnake source for documentation on possible update types.
  To control your snake, send the ascii characters also used by human clients.