Continuing with the Worm game. I thought I had worked out how to make the tail end of the worm go away, and then once I started to describe it I realized it wouldn’t be that simple. We have to keep track of each “body part” of the worm in order from front to back, so we always know which one is the next to drop off as the worm “moves.” That means we will have a list of pointers to those body parts, and pointers into that list.

Double pointers are challenging, so that will be a fun task I wasn’t expecting. I may do a whiteboard video to draw it out better than I explained it here. The pointer list will be in a 2K area of memory, wrapping around to the beginning if necessary, with two pointers into that list for the head and tail of the worm. Got the head pointer done in this video, and will add the tail pointer and the code to move the tail along in the next one.