SDL:Tutorials

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C

General

• How to set up your SDL Build Environment
• Initializing SDL libraries (Video, Audio, Font, Net)

Audio

See also SDL_mixer

Input

• Keyboard Input using an Event Loop
• Practical Keyboard Input

Video

• Displaying a Bitmap
• Displaying a Bitmap from a Custom Resource File using SDL_RWops
• Displaying a Bitmap from a zip file using SDL_RWops and zlib
• 2D Graphics
• Using SDL with OpenGL
• Using cairo and glitz with SDL

See also SDL_image.

Networking

• Using SDL_net

Font Rendering

• SDL_ttf
• SDL_Pango

Miscellaneous

• Collision detection between SDL_Surfaces

C++

• Simple game engine framework using SDL

Creating a Complete 2D Engine

• Engine development overview
• Designing the System Core
• Designing the Graphics Core
• Designing the Input Core
• Designing the Sound Core

Source Code

The source code files listed below do not have accompanying tutorials.

• BlockBreak - Breakout clone. Linux binaries only.
• Eat
• Paddles - Pong clone. Linux binaries only.
• Sokoban clone
• Throw the Bouncing Penguin Demo - By Ricardo Cruz

Delphi

• Simple game engine framework using Delphi

External Links

• Aaron's Game Programming Tutorials
• An article on using Hardware Surfaces with SDL
• Cone3D SDL Tutorials
• DevHub - SDL Tutorials
• Mars, Land of No Mercy - SDL Samples
• Roger's SDL Tutorials
• SDL_mixer Documentation
• Official SDL Website
• SDL Documentation Project
• Using SDL & OpenGL together by DavW
• jnrdev - 2d Jump and Run Tutorials using SDL
• Sol Tutorials
• Lazy Foo's SDL Tutorials: Beginning Game Programming
• Setting up SDL with MinGW and Eclipse