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So I’ve decided that I’d like to get into developing games… It’s something that I’ve always pondered over the course of many years, and I’ve tinkered here and there, but nothing of consequence has really emerged. Recently, however, I’ve decided that I’d like to try my hand at it once again.

About 6 months back, I bought a book “Beginning Game Programming” which teaches you the basics behind programming games. It concentrates on 2D game development for the most part, although it does touch on 3D in the last part of the book. I didn’t make it to the 3D portion, but I found the book to be well written. If you’re interested, you can find the book here.

The only problem I had with the book was that it was centred around DirectX and windows-specific programming. Now, me being a linux geek and all, that didn’t sit entirely well with me. But I suppose if you’re serious about gaming, and want to make some cash, windows is the way to go since most games are on that platform.

Anyway, I stopped messing with games for a while.. Then got back into it again in the past couple weeks. I did some hunting around for books that taught a more cross-platform approach to game programming. The books I found were few and expensive. However, the internet being the wealth of information that it is, especially when it comes to open source software, I came across a set of tutorials that a dude wrote to introduce programming with the SDL library. Good tutorials so far, and all his lessons include the finished code and resources (images, etc). I haven’t finished off the tutorials yet but from what I’ve seen so far, they’re quite good. You can find the tutorials here: http://lazyfoo.net/SDL_tutorials/index.php

As I make some progress (and possibly some original code ), I’ll post it.

Scotty