Allegro – Knox Game Design, December 2020

Overview of the Allegro game programming library.  Compiling a legacy Allegro game with DJGPP through DOSBox.  Installing and building a game with Allegro 5 in Visual Studio.  How to use event and polling based methods for handling keyboard and gamepad input. Explanation of how to create a “Hello World”, Number Guessing game, and simple space shooter.  Comparison of C++ to C, Java, and C#.  Explanation of how to load music, sound effects, font, and bitmap files.  Review of the Allegro drawing primitives.

Source code for examples – https://github.com/levidsmith/AllegroExamples

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Allegro - Knox Game Design, December 2020
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