Thread: OpenGL

I could list quite a few great 2D games just a few are, zelda I, metroid, super metroid, contra, ...............

I was not saying 2d games are sorry, like TechWins was saying, I meant the 2d games I make are sorry.

Originally posted by JoshG
OpenGL to advanced so you are gonna learn MFC, then Win32 API, then DX, then try some OpenGL. Well I guess we will see you in about 10 years....

Seriously, try Allegro, it is simple, you will learn what stuff is, then move onto OpenGL or something. I have never used DX or OpenGL, but at my skill level Allegro is not holding me back. What I mean to say is that I am not gonna be making any kickass 3d games soon, just sorry 2d ones, and Allegro seems to be the easiest way to do that.

Allegro? Never heard of it.. What is it?

You have 420 post on this message board and you have never heard of it?

http://www.talula.demon.co.uk/allegro/

You probably wont be able to get it working, the easiest way is to download dev-c++ then get the allegro package for it.

I don't want to download lots of junk & un-needed software for now, so I'll just read about it and if It's good, maybe I'll download it

Wait.. so you're telling me that there's a game engine out there that is a kind of plug-in for dev-C++ and with which I can create good games? Another thing.. is that cheating in a way??
Thanks

Who said game engine? It is a library.

But it's almost like using 'Games Factory' to make a game... less code, better games.. not much work to do... it's like 'making games, the easy way... right?

What the hell are you talking about? Check out the Allegro docs and see what it looks like, it is not a 'game factory'.

If all you want to do is make games, and not code or read, or try to learn stuff, then maybe you do need one of those 'game factory' programs.

Think of Allegro graphics functions like the stdio.h functions, or since you use c++ think of them like cout. Not official part of the C language, but an addon so you can do more stuff. Well cout, and printf are an official part of the language, they are not part of actual makeup, like the way you use it. Damn hard to explain.

Think of C like the English language. You have stuff that makes up sentences (i.e. sentences, verbs, nouns, pronouns). C has statements, variables, functions.

Allegro is like words. English language is sentences, verbs, etc. You use words to make stuff. C is all those things above, you use librarys to make stuff, like words. You cant makes a good sentence without words, you cant make a good program without a library.

Damn, makes sense to me. I should write a C tutorial based on the English language.

Originally posted by JoshG
What the hell are you talking about? Check out the Allegro docs and see what it looks like, it is not a 'game factory'.

If all you want to do is make games, and not code or read, or try to learn stuff, then maybe you do need one of those 'game factory' programs.

I'm not saying it's games factory because in games factory, you don't have to write a single line of code to create a fully working game (2D) .. but if you compare using ordinary DX/OGL & Allegro, Allegro seems more easy (& confusing)

Allegro is simpler than OpenGL and DirectX, and it is also less powerful. C is simpler than ASM, but it is also less powerful. There's an analogy for you.