This post is the conclusion of 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.

Welcome to the End

I am finally at the final post of my series on 2D Game Development using Allegro 5 and C++ (throwing the keywords in there for the search engines). All I can say is that it has been fa lot of fun and a serious learning experience (hopefully for everyone involved). Let us take a moment and look back at some of the things we have learned:

• game loops
• collision detection
• animation
• audio
• graphical primitives
• timing
• events
• inputs
• game states
• game structure
• deployment (for some of you anyway, I’m working on it for everyone else)
• some simple AI
• sprites / bitmaps
• transparency and masking

Not bad! I didn’t even bother trying to come up with an exhaustive list, because many of you newer programmers probably picked up on hundreds of subtle nuances.

Let’s Wrap It Up

I just want to thank everyone who left positive comments here and on my YouTube channel. The support is really appreciated. An even bigger thank you to everyone who donated! Keep your eyes peeled for future projects of mine (several are currently in the planning stage). Hopefully I will get my OOP Development mini-series posted soon!

Thanks Again

-Mike