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Mar 17, 2011 at 9:46pm
Hi I just got ms visual studio working with allegro and was wondering what the best tutorial to learn allegro 5 fro game making was.
Mar 18, 2011 at 3:26pm
thanks. Are they based towards game making or just using allegro in general?
Mar 18, 2011 at 3:31pm
Using allegro, though I think some also give examples for basic game set ups. There is no "this is how you make a game", because games are very different from each other. You will have to find an own solution... though sites like http://oodesign.com help finding appropitiate design pattern, the decision which patterns fits you best and the task of actually implementing it so it fulfills your needs is up to you.
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Mar 18, 2011 at 3:39pm
FOR BEST ALLEGRO LESSONS ( WHERE I LEARNED TO PROGRAMM GAMES) VISIT : http://www.cppgameprogramming.com/ AT ALLEGRO SECTION !! IT HELPED ME UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING !!
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Mar 18, 2011 at 4:06pm
That site looks great but sadly it is not for version 5. oh btw its called lowercase :)
Mar 18, 2011 at 4:35pm
I'm sure you've already been told this. But i really recommend SDL or SFML over allegro...
Mar 18, 2011 at 5:31pm
Well quite a few reasons, the main reason being support. Allegro is pretty old and unsupported. The documentation on SDL is vast, and SFML has some really good tutorials. Allegro... Wellll not so much.
Mar 18, 2011 at 5:41pm
Ive already installed allegro so im going to try but if i fail Ill try SDL. thanks.
Mar 18, 2011 at 5:48pm
You won't fail. It's easy enough to work with. But I'd still switch, probably to SFML. It's quite a bit faster than both of the others.
Mar 18, 2011 at 8:39pm| Well quite a few reasons, the main reason being support. Allegro is pretty old and unsupported. |
Actually, Allegro5 is new. I know what you're talking about for Allegro up to ver 4, as it originated... in DOS I think, and e.g. had some compatibility problems with the Win32 API. The current Allegro5 (complete revision, new API and stuff) works just fine though.
| It's quite a bit faster than both of the others. |
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Mar 18, 2011 at 8:51pm
Well seeing as there are no tutorials that actualy tell you what its telling you to do(hope that made sense). Looks like ill try SFML
*edit as far as i saw there is no version for vs 2010 so ill try SDL
*edit edit Im a retard the 2008 works with the 2010 (wow soon this might turn into my twitter feed with every tweet having a *edit in front of it :)
*edit as far as i saw there is no version for vs 2010 so ill try SDL
*edit edit Im a retard the 2008 works with the 2010 (wow soon this might turn into my twitter feed with every tweet having a *edit in front of it :)
Last edited on Mar 18, 2011 at 9:08pm
Mar 18, 2011 at 9:11pm
@hanst: I apologize, I hadn't realized there was a new version. As far as the speed goes, that was probably just poor programming on my part.
Mar 19, 2011 at 3:08am
If you want to program 2d user interfaces I'd suggest learning SDL. It's as easy as Allegro, and you can find a LOT OF INFO ON IT. Good luck!
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