Beginner's Guide to Game Programming Ep1 Part 6-A Drawing Text in Allegro 4

The Beginner's Guide to Game Programming:
A Problem Solving Approach
Episode 1: Makin' Pickin' Sticks
Part 6: Drawing Text in Allegro

This is a written and video tutorial created to teach the basics of Allegro and SDL as well as game programming in general, while encouraging the newbie to code it out themselves.

This video covers the functions for drawing text in Allegro.

You can get the written version and other things at my site:
http://www.moosader.com

Playlist link:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=B9C8BC6F495BD17E

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[satomassao]

@LusikkaMage Hmm... what are the other fonts that are included to use?

And how adjust the font size?

And... is it better to use such functions or use something like "letter image sheets" ?

[LusikkaMage]

@satomassao Never learned to use other fonts in Allegro, lawl.

[cplusplusgamer]

Do you have the images for pick-it-sticks?

I really don't want to have to draw them.

[LusikkaMage]

@cplusplusgamer if you go to OpenArt dot Moosader dot Com, there is a decent amount of graphics to choose from so you don't have to draw your own.

[lapidations]

Hey Lusikka/Rachel, I've a doubt about texts in Allegro, how do I make a "carriage return"? In ordinary printf in C writing "\n" worked, but in allegro the only way I found to do that is by making another printf. Can you help me? Thanks for the tutorial, as I said in other comment, it changed my life ^_^

[LusikkaMage]

@lapidations I'm not sure if you can, I never looked into it.

[spyderhex]

hahaha the toon self image is awesome. props.

[dks71]

Thank you.You are really a very good teacher. :)

[THEFEDERER1992]

MAKECOL function can u plj expalin lylte bit more...................as m screen color is not changing using this feature?? help plj:)

thanku

[LusikkaMage]

@PrawdaUnia Oh. Well if you don't know what Goatse is, I would not suggest randomly Googling it. Instead, Google "Know your meme Goatse" if you want to know what it is.

I swear I'm not weird, it was just a prank floating around the internet. I was exposed to it when I was 12. :P

[PrawdaUnia]

@LusikkaMage At the end of the video there's an image saying "Advertsed at my dentist office. Lets NOT go here, mmmk?" what's that?

[LusikkaMage]

@PrawdaUnia Dentist thing?