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Beginning Game Programming

Last Updated 1/04/09
These tutorials were made to help programmers start out in game programming. I tried to keep them as simple and to the point as possible. They are a perpetual work in progress, and will be improved over time.

They use C++ as the programming language because it is considered the game industry's standard. SDL is used as the API because it is cross platform, and relatively easy to use.
Table of Contents
Lesson 1
Setting up SDL		 Lesson 2
Surface Loading and Blitting		 Lesson 3
Extension Libraries and Loading Other Image Formats		 Lesson 4
Event Driven Programming		 Lesson 5
Color Keying		 Lesson 6
Clip Blitting and Sprite Sheets
Lesson 7
True Type Fonts		 Lesson 8
Key Presses		 Lesson 9
Mouse Events		 Lesson 10
Key States		 Lesson 11
Playing Sounds		 Lesson 12
Timing
Lesson 13
Advanced Timers		 Lesson 14
Regulating Frame Rate		 Lesson 15
Calculating Frame Rate		 Lesson 16
Motion		 Lesson 17
Collision Detection		 Lesson 18
Per-pixel Collision Detection
Lesson 19
Circular Collision Detection		 Lesson 20
Animation		 Lesson 21
Scrolling		 Lesson 22
Scrolling Backgrounds		 Lesson 23
Getting String Input		 Lesson 24
Game Saves
Lesson 25
Joysticks		 Lesson 26
Resizable Windows and Window Events		 Lesson 27
Alpha Blending		 Lesson 28
Particle Engines		 Lesson 29
Tiling		 Lesson 30
Bitmap Fonts
Lesson 31
Pixel Manipulation and Surface Flipping		 Lesson 32
Frame Independent Movement		 Lesson 33
Multithreading		 Lesson 34
Semaphores		 Lesson 35
Mutexes and Conditions		 Lesson 36
Using OpenGL with SDL
I am not claiming to know everything there is to know about programming/C++/SDL, but I have gained knowledge over the years. These tutorials are made to pass on the knowledge I gained to those just starting out. I try to keep my code and tutorials as bug free as possible. If you find any errors please report them to me. Suggestions are also welcome.

So if you have any suggestions, comments, questions, bugs reports, typos, or anything else you want to say about the tutorials, feel free to contact me.
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