Before you settle your fingertips on home row, watch out for snakes.

Redditor MythicManiac reconstructed the classic serpentine game made famous on late-’90s Nokia cell phones, with one distinctly analog twist: The snake is formed through multicolor backlights on the letters of a mechanical gaming keyboard.

From the video preview they shared with Reddit’s Gaming community Thursday night, MythicManiac’s new game looks like the most entertaining use of a keyboard since, well…

The ingenious programmer cites “4 AM boredom” as the game’s chief source of inspiration and explains in a comment the process behind its inception:

“1. Stay up till 4 AM

2. Stop doing everything, at most just browse the web

3. First stupid idea you get, implement it

4. Code till the morning”

Thus, a snake is born:

Though most redditors rejoiced at MythicManiac’s novelty game, the designer remains modest about the achievement.

“I built [Keyboard Snake] on top of some other project that already interfaced with the lights,” MythicManiac explains in a comment. “Basically just coded a regular snake game but made it use the keyboard’s lights as a screen.”

A few users questioned whether “Keyboard Snake” had all the features of the original game—like what happens when you win?

And how do you know how close you are to victory?

But surely the underlying code isn’t available anywhere online for fellow programmers to copy and build upon—is it?

(Spoiler: MythicManiac used C# to program the game—not, as redditor Freezingcow punningly suggests, “Python.”)

User Fghtkk thought the game would make an excellent off-screen pastime while enduring long queue times on League of Legends (or perhaps while on hold with your insurance company).

But beware: If you rely on MythicManiac’s game too much during your hours of boredom, you might find yourself frustrated with the ceaseless ouroboros wriggling around those letters: