Beginner's Guide to Game Programming Ep1 Part 2-A Initializing Allegro 4

The Beginner's Guide to Game Programming:
A Problem Solving Approach
Episode 1: Makin' Pickin' Sticks
Part 2-A: Initializing 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 initializing Allegro as well as writing a basic program with a loop, and talks about double buffering.

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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[TheChillaThrilla]

Ohh i wish i understood more of the stuff youre talking about:( Do you have any recomandations for me to learn??

[LusikkaMage]

@TheChillaThrilla antirtfm on YouTube has some beginner C++ video tutorials

[maxinimrod]

Sorry if i'm too stupid, but...I don't understand the part of #include "System.h" and the class you created...Do I have to create the class then save the file in the lib folder of dev-cpp as System.h ???

[LusikkaMage]

@maxinimrod You need to stop this tutorial right now. In the very first episode I tell you that this is a guide for somebody who understands their basics of C++. It sounds like, to me, you've barely started. Go check out AntiRTFM's tutorials on YouTube, or go pick up a C++ textbook, and return when you've spent time writing programs and understand classes and headers, in addition to pointers, references, inheritance, etc.

[MrKmose]

@korken4 The most important think to know! A++

[Destroyer19941995]

@maxinimrod You cannot start at all :/. Learn C++ i recommend 'C++ Without Fear 2nd Edition' book. It is full of math you will love it! :D

[MrShyguy0]

3:14 I'd like to add that you should make sure that you are linking to the correct library. Installing the Windows SDK 7.1 along side the most recent DirectX SDK causes VS to link with an old version of the XInput library that is missing some stuff.

[politicaltruth42]

@politicaltruth42 ok it was because color depth was set to 16 i changed it to 32 and it fixed the problem

[politicaltruth42]

my windows theme changes to windows basic when i launch this application why is that?

[MrKmose]

@kidharris55 umm... allegro download...?... are you sure you're ready to start programming,,, It's gonna take a lot more initiative than that if you want to be serious about programming... A well done text-based game with no API or any other outside directory can take days and even weeks to write.. maybe you should choose another path...?

[MrKmose]

@Type0ForeignTaco Just some advice... If this is your first time linking which I suppose it is because you don't know how it is a very complicated process. There are some videos on youtube, but then again if you don't even know why your linking or the basic mechanics behind it, you should go to your nearest bookstore and buy a nice big book on C++ either a primer or intermediate.