this reminds me of when I tried to program a snake game in two days for school. it was too hard to make the snake grow and still follow you, so I changed it to bullimic snake and left little puke trails after every piece you ate. then there was no need to add onto the body. Kinda hard to lose though...
i haven't even started the game yet and i'm incredibly impressed. I've been having sticky arrow key issues for months and suddenly this guy has the solution