| Title |
Topics |
Description |
Version |
| Getting Over the Hump | Activities, Motivation | Are you stuck in a rut? Lacking motivation or just ramming your head against a tough problem? Try this out. | 1-18-10 |
| MixBox Quick Guide | MixBox | Want sound and music in your games? MixBox is a quick and flexible way to do it! | 9-26-09 |
| A Guide to Graphics with Sprig |
Sprig |
Read this to get started with Sprig. It covers a wide range of Sprig functions with lots of usage examples. |
11-8-08 |
| NFont Example |
NFont |
An example of using the features of NFont: Simple
text, newlines, alignment, colors, animation, extended character set. |
Coming soon! |
| Graphics from Scratch, Using SDL | IDEs, compilers, linking, SDL | If
you're new to programming or want to figure out all this 'library'
stuff, this is the article for you. I'll lead you through
installing and setting up a complete build environment for SDL. | 10-3-08 |
| The Ins and Outs (and Overlays) of Alpha-blending | SDL, Sprig | A lot of yap, yap, yap about transparency in SDL. | 7-28-08 |
| Huh? My
Pong clone uses 100% CPU and is still slow? |
SDL_Delay, Framerates, Throttling |
If your program is hogging the CPU or is running
slowly, check this out. This article discusses using
SDL_Delay to control your framerate. There's also code for getting better delay resolution. |
7-2-08 |
Jonny
D's C++ Tutorial
(for absolute beginners!) |
C++, I/O, Classes |
A tutorial for
anyone who wants to learn how to program. It goes through
a single program and explains everything. I'd almost
bet that you haven't seen so many comments in source
code! You'll go from #includes to classes.
Also included is a complete little program that allows you an
opportunity to read some bare code and try to figure it
out. It's in an early stage and I'll need some feedback
before I can work on it further. Tell me if you like it! |
v1.0
1-19-07 |