Elysian Shadows

I just built my first game ( Pong clone, no segfault w00t! ) in SDL. It is actually the first API i've worked with so far so I have very limited perspective, but I found it really easy to work with. I did a little work with Allegro ( tried some tiling, blitting and display options ) and watched Lusikka's YouTube tutorials, but I like SDL more.

You are quoting me out of context. As I said before, I just wanted to point out that there is more than SDL and Allegro.

Actually, i'm sorry, I re-read your post a couple of times, and I did quote you out of context, but at the time, I genuinely thought that's what you were implying.

As for using SDL as your first, I think it's a pretty good approach to take, no where as near as complicated as OpenGL, it brings everything together, and it isn't hard to use at all.

programmerinprogress wrote: Actually, i'm sorry, I re-read your post a couple of times, and I did quote you out of context, but at the time, I genuinely thought that's what you were implying.

Thou shalt be forgiven

Not quite sure what the difference is between sdl and allegro. it looks like it does everything that sdl does, but i think i saw someone say that allegro doesnt have a wrapper for opengl. so it must handle graphics pretty well. maybe one's easier to learn that the other?