Best way to approach training a model to play snake

I would like to train a neural network to play the classic snake game, I am thinking about using Deep Q-Learning but I'm not sure about how to get the game data into the right form so I can run it through the neural network, would it work to have a binary like system like:

Ex 6x4 game

1 = snake
2 = apple
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001000
111000

If not that than how would it work to give the neural …

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