lopatin posted the first Snaketron on Hacker News in May 2012, while, by the developer's account, still in school and new to game development, and returned in August 2026 with the rewrite. The same name is used for the game's GitHub repository, whose MIT licence names Alex Lopatin as the copyright holder (2013–2026).
Competitive online multiplayer Snake with ranked seasons, duels and team matches, rewritten in Rust 14 years after the original; the developer says AI got so good that they stopped writing code by hand.
