Creating Games From Scratch Using SDL 2.0

Name: Creating Games From Scratch Using SDL 2.0
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Create your own games from beginning to end on popular, crossplatform, SDL 2.0

Created byW S

Last updated 8/2024

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What you'll learn

Program your own 2d games using SDL 2.0
Understand the discrete nature of games and the "game loop"
Play sfx & music in your game
Do body body collision detection and resolution

Course content

6 sections • 24 lectures • 1h 27m total length

Who uses SDL anyway?3:21
Indie Development1:34
Learn how indie developers monetize and market games, not just master technical features. Real-world notes from marshal of the elite squadron show how gameplay engagement drives downloads and credit.

SDL sample program3:22
Installing SDL 2.0 on Windows5:02
Install sdl 2.0 on Windows by downloading the vc version, configuring include and lib directories in Visual Studio, linking SDL2 libraries, and copying the dll for a successful build.
Installing SDL 2.0 on Mac OS X8:29
Install and sign the SDL 2.0 framework on macOS, then integrate it with your Xcode project by copying the frameworks and configuring build phases to link SDL_image and SDL_mixer.
[Part 1/2] SDL 2.0 Barebones Bootstrap/Starter Explained (SDL_Init())9:23
[Part 2/2] SDL 2.0 Barebones Bootstrap/Starter Explained (draw function)2:53
Learn how to render basic SDL primitives by creating an SDL rect, setting position, size, and color, and drawing rectangles, lines, and points to build simple scenes.

CONTENT: Spriting0:02
This is a Visual Studio project with the Spriting example code
Installing SDL_Image 2.03:38
You need this to load PNG's and JPG's! https://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_image/
Sprite class data members overview5:00
Explore how the sprite class uses static SDL and game object references shared across instances, plus a unique name, rectf bounds, color, texture, and a hidden flag to drive rendering.
Sprite::Sprite ctor and image load5:36
Moving the Sprite 1 - Controller class update()0:45
Moving the Sprite 2 - sprite displacement3:31
Learn how the sprite moves in the game update function by reading the SDL keyboard state array and updating x and y for up, down, left, and right.
Moving the Sprite 3 - Sprite::update() (bounds)4:34
Clamp the sprite inside the 800 by 600 window by updating sprite::update to cap top at 0, left at 0, and keep bottom and right within bounds.
Sprite::draw()2:26
Check that a texture is loaded, then draw the sprite with an SDL rect using render copy; support drawing rectangles, pixel data, or a texture atlas subregion, unless hidden.

Requirements

To be able to follow this course, you will need an intermediate skill level with coding in C++
You will need an IDE in your chosen development environment (On Windows, usually Visual Studio, Mac=Xcode)
You will need to download SDL 2.0 from http://libsdl.org (free & open source)

Description

Have you ever wanted to program your own game in C++ from scratch? Do you want to enjoy easy & free multiplatform deployment (Windows, Mac, Linux iOS and Android?). In this course, we will have a basic introduction to programming games in C++ using the SDL 2.0 library. We will use SDL 2.0 to:

Get a window on the screen
Draw line and rectangle primitives
Draw sprites on the screen
Use object-oriented principles to manage Sprites and game character data
Load and play sounds & music from disk
Do collision detection using Rectangles
Manage game state & game state transitions using finite state machines

Overview & Motivation

Why use SDL 2.0? Many people opt to go with complete game engines, such as Unity or Unreal Engine 4, to create their games. Unity and Unreal have licensing costs associated with them. Are you prepared to take on that extra cost? What if you can avoid spending that money on the engine and spend it on licensing assets and other resources instead?

What about using a free and open source sound, graphics and input API to deploy your game to all devices? And the freedom to program in pure C or C++?

LibSDL lets you do all that. Simple C commands will enable you to load sounds & music, load & display hardware accelerated graphics easily. The simple framework I provide in the code examples here will make it easy for you to get started creating your own games from scratch.

Programming from C++ directly (instead of using an engine) will give you much more control over how things get done inside your game. If you like raw programming and always wanted to see how games like Super Mario Brothers, Dragon Warrior, and other classic NES games would get assembled, try this course!

Many professional & indie games use libsdl already, including:

Robin hood - the Legend of Sherwood, Left 4 Dead 2, Steel Storm, Edna & Harvey, Proteus, Psychonauts, Amnesia, FastForward, Syberia, AwesomeNauts and more.

Who this course is for:

This course is not about creating robust game engines!
We will see some typical engine code (collision detection code), but our focus is on game assembly using SDL
This game is not about creating game art.. that princess is in another castle!
If you're interested in interfacing with SDL 2.0 directly (with no other layers between!) this course is for you
Our core focus in this course will be creating games using SDL

Creating Games From Scratch Using SDL 2.0

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Undefined2 lectures • 5min

Structure of a Game3 lectures • 10min

Setting up SDL5 lectures • 29min

Basic Sprites8 lectures • 26min

Basic game structure using PING: FSM's & Sounds4 lectures • 16min

Side Scroller game using "Adventures of Dario"2 lectures • 2min

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