2D Game Dev – Part 14.2 – Adding a Background to our Allegro 5 Game

This post is a portion of Part 14 in my on going series about 2D Game Development using the Allegro 5 library. These posts are in course order. You can see all of the posts in this course by clicking the “2D Game Development” button at the top of this site.

• 14.0 – Finishing Our Game
• 14.1 – Adding Game States to our Allegro 5 Game
• 14.2 – Adding a Background to our Allegro 5 Game
• 14.3 – Adding Audio to our Allegro 5 Game
• 14.4 – Deploying our Allegro 5 Game in Visual Studio 2010

Time to give our game some depth. In this video we add a background. I will be the first to admit, this video is cheating slightly. I really just take the background code from our parallax background video and paste it in. Oh well, works well enough

Full source code can be found here.