Nothing has released a new Android app called Nothing Community Widgets that will highlight home screen tools and games created collaboratively by users. The first widget is a re-creation of Snake, which was the most memorable of the three games pre-installed on the Nokia 6110 when it was launched 26 years ago.
While the original game was played by pressing buttons because mobile phones didn’t have touch screens, the snake in the Nothing version is controlled by swiping across the screen, and a double tap pauses the action, according to Retro Dodo. However, the gameplay remains the same: players earn points by eating red dots while trying to avoid colliding with themselves as the snake gets longer and longer.
The inspiration for the new widget came from Rahul Janardhanan, an artist who earlier this year designed and shared a collection of 10 concepts for potential Nothing OS widgets. Janardhanan’s work caught the company’s attention, and the Nothing development team worked with a community developer to create the widget.
The new Snake gaming widget and the new widget app from Nothing are a continuation of a similar initiative by Nothing to collaborate with its user community. In October, the company announced the release of the Nothing Phone 2A Plus Community Edition with an updated glow-in-the-dark design, new wallpapers, and even packaging created by the company’s “most talented followers.”
