Starter Projects

These projects and templates are great starting points for building your Battlesnake. They're available for many different programming languages and platforms — some maintained by Battlesnake core team members and others contributed by the Battlesnake community.

Starter Project Templates

These projects are built and maintained by Battlesnake core team members. We do our best to keep them functional and up-to-date with the latest game features. If something doesn't work as you'd expect or needs updating, please let us know so we can make changes :)

If you're building a Battlesnake for the first time these are great starting points.

Python

Go

Rust

TypeScript

JavaScript

tip

These projects are GitHub Templates, and we recommended clicking the green "Use this template" button to bring a clean copy of the starter code into your own GitHub account. You are also welcome to fork one of these repos instead, but please do not submit Pull Requests back to the template repos.

Community Projects

The Battlesnake community is all about collaboration and shared learning. Sometimes players will build their own starter projects featuring new combinations of languages and platforms and share them back to the community to help new players get started!

C# Starter on Microsoft Azure

by neistow

Dart Shelf Starter Project

by James Robert Perih

F# Starter Project

by olivercoad

Haskell Starter with Heroku

by Alexander Pankoff

Java Starter Project

by BattlesnakeOfficial

Java Starter Project with JBang and Quarkus

by Max Rydahl Andersen

JavaScript Starter Project with IBM Cloud

by Steve Martinelli

Julia Starter Project

by Nettogrof

Julia Starter Project

by luigiannelli

Kotlin Starter Project

by NotEvenJoking

Kotlin and Java Battlesnake Quickstart

by Paul Ambrose

Mule and DataWeave Battlesnake Quickstart

by Manik Magar

PHP Starter Project

by Nettogrof

PowerShell Starter Project with Azure Functions

by Hestan

Node-RED Low-Code Starter Project

by Sam Machin

Reinforcement Learning Battlesnake with AWS Sagemaker

by Jonathan Chung

Ruby Starter Project

by BattlesnakeOfficial

Rust Starter Project

by McRaeAlex

Scala Starter Project with Heroku

by horrox

TypeScript Starter Project

by Kian Gorgichuk

TypeScript and Deno Starter Project

by Tyrel Hiebert

Elixir Snake with Fly.io

by Andy Chan

Swift Starter Project

by Maarten Engels

C++ Starter Project

by Benny Gaechter

info

These projects are maintained independently by their developers. See project guidelines for each project if you're interested in getting involved or have any questions or concerns.

Contributing

Want to submit your own projects to this list? Wonderful! Community starter projects must match the following criteria to be listed:

• Contain just enough code to run a simple Battlesnake and nothing more
• Be well documented and easy to understand
• Ideally have a minimal project structure

If your project fits, feel free to submit a pull request or start a discussion thread and we'll take a look!