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SDL text or additional images not loading

I've got a basic side scroller that allows the user to run and jump around. I've used various tutorials to get this far, but I can't seem to get any text to render, no matter what method. I also can't ...
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SDL: No sprite movement

I've got my sprite animation but now I'm lacking any actual movement on the screen. Sorry about pasting around 200 lines of code but it's all relevant in the case (at least I think it is!). I think ...
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joystick movement for Geometry Wars clone

I am kinda new in game programming, but I've got a semestral work to make a game, so I decided to do a clone of Geometry Wars. Despite that the game is really simple (in principle), I have ran into a ...
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How does this background scrolling code work?

I'm glad that this code does exactly what I wanted it to do...But I can't make sense of it although I wrote it from scratch myself. What I wanted to do was create an infinitely scrolling background. ...
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My 2D collision code does not work as expected. How do I fix it?

I have a simple 2D game with a tile-based map. I am new to game development, I followed the LazyFoo tutorials on SDL. The tiles are in a bmp file, but each tile inside it corresponds to an internal ...
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How do I cap rendering of tiles in a 2D game with SDL?

I have some boilerplate code working, I basically have a tile based map composed of just 3 colors, and some walls and render with SDL. The tiles are in a bmp file, but each tile inside it corresponds ...
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Is there an alternative to SDL 1.3 for a C++ game that should run on iOS and Android?

I've used SDL for many desktop games, always as the cross-platform glue for: Creating a window Processing input Rendering images Rendering fonts Playing sounds/music It has never disappointed me ...
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How to alter image pixels of a wild life bird?

Hello so I was hoping someone knew how to move or change color and position actual image pixels and could explain and show the code to do so. I know how to write pixels on a surface or screen-surface ...
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Data-driven animations

Say you are using C/SDL for a 2D game project. It's often the case that people use a structure to represent a frame in an animation. The struct consists of an image and how much time the frame is ...