Snake Experiments

I am trying to build one of my ideas from earlier in the year during the 'show us something' project.

Show us something minisite

Ofcourse I am not trying to do this in processing. I'll be honest I may have torn half my hair out today. Stress! I've produced a few results though but am a long way off making it anywere near close to the imagined result.

Here is a version of it simply following the mouse:




As you can tell it's not perfect and I couldn't figure out how to distance the image apart equally (Still can't!) I've since made a version were you control the movement of the dot with the keys.

Use the a key to move left
s to move right
w to move up
and z to move down
Note: MAKE SURE YOU CLICK INSIDE OF THE APPLET






or view it externally here.
http://www.amythornley.co.uk/applet/snake4.html

And here is one that was an accident. Use the same controls but have a sonic like movement instead! This is wrong but it was an accident achieved while trying to get a trail to go behind the dot, of other dots.

View it here:
Sonic snake!

Still stuck on how to do this so have had to resort to asking on the processing forum! Really hoping I am able to achieve this, even if not an actual snake game just having a trail would be nice.