THIS IS SO COOL, its so mind boggling until you realize what it actually is (its still mind boggling) the snake moves in an upside down cone, he moves in straight lines to us from this angle but on the cone he makes parabolic shapes when he dips in the middle, which is why he slows down when he moves perpendicular to the lines, its because he dips and gets a longer path, this is such a cool idea and must have been hell to code lol
i have reached 29 apples but never beat it im going insane as well, but this is still very cool and addicting