Sdl2 game developement

Question

While SDL2 " is written in C, works natively with C++, and there are bindings available for several other languages, including C# and Python." - https://www.libsdl.org/index.php

This thread is mainly, for creating C++ games using SDL2

Answer 1

Github extension is also under Tools | Extensions and Updates in Visual Studio 2017 or via the install file

Answer 2

*LazyFoo also has SDL2 Tutorial:
http://lazyfoo.net/tutorials/SDL/index.php

Answer 3

Wow these are so useful but I suck at C+-

Answer 4

Finite State Machine helps but is not "required"

http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/state-machine-design-in-c/184401236

Answer 5

Optional:

- A GitHub account

https://github.com/

- Visual Studio 2015 or newer GitHub plugin

https://visualstudio.github.com/

Answer 6

@Jay

How did you get the GitHub extension for VS?

edit

never mind I found it.

Answer 7

An IDE

https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/410578/?ref=app

Answer 8

A Tutorial

for SDL2

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHM_A02NtaaVey-4Ezh7p6bbOsv-DKA-0

for SDL1

http://lazyfoo.net/tutorials/SDL/01_hello_SDL/index.php

Answer 9

To start you need...

Simple Direct Layer (SDL)

-SDL2 devel
http://www.libsdl.org/download-2.0.php

-SDL2_MIXER devel
http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_mixer/

and

-SDL2_IMAGE devel

http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/

Answer 10

An SDL2 wrapper I created : https://github.com/Klevh/SANDAL2
It has doxygen documentation and a read me, but I am not sure it is what you wanted ^^

Answer 11

The Pyhton flavour for sdl2

https://www.sololearn.com/discuss/1211091/?ref=app

Answer 12

Itch.io

post your games and download others!

https://itch.io/games/free

Answer 13

@S Vengat

I need to practice too.

It is fine. There is plenty of time to improve.

Answer 14

The current SDL forum site for

- questions
- tips and more

https://discourse.libsdl.org