Pacman

[DrChill]

Having recently a calculator I feel awesome (ish) but the next round of course being pacman I need help I can't find how to start I know I need a graphic engine but I still don't know how to start can someone link me to a tutorial site or tell me how?

[Bazzy]

You can use some kind of ascii art and do that on the console

[jRaskell]

What platform and what compiler are you using? Once you start getting into graphics and/or console manipulation, you start getting into platform dependant stuff.

[DrChill]

I use dev c++ I am going to make a arcade game (I think thats what you meant by platform)

[DrChill]

Pacman ascii sound interesting but I want more of a graphic pacman

[Disch]

There are some cross-platform libraries you can use for graphics and input and stuff.

SDL is one that's very simple and easy to get the hang of:

http://www.libsdl.org/

[DrChill]

Thanks Disch I'll defintely look into it

[DrChill]

I feel noobish but how do I get it to work? I did a tutorial but it failed lazy foo I use Dev c++ but it won't work I did it three times oh well I've decided to add things to my calculator

[Disch]

what did you try?

how did it fail?

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I checked the tutorials section on SDL's site, searched for Dev-C++, and found this link:

http://cone3d.gamedev.net/cgi-bin/index.pl?page=tutorials/gfxsdl/index

first tutorial listed "will get you started in using SDL for graphics in your programs/games. It also talks about how to use SDL with Dev-C++"

[DrChill]

http://lazyfoo.net/SDL_tutorials/lesson01/index.php