2D Game Development Course

This course is a complete overview of 2D game development. It was made with beginning programmers in mind and focuses on fundamentals and low skill set solutions. The materials are written in C++ and utilize the Allegro 5 library. Enjoy!

 

UPDATE: If you are using MinGW, here is a guide to getting you setup and running (Thanks you tsevetszord)

• Part 1
  • Part 1.0: Intro to Game Development
  • Part 1.1: Installing Allegro 5 with Visual Studio 2010
  • Part 1.2: Your First Allegro 5 program
• Part 2
  • Part 2.0: 2D Graphic Basics
  • Part 2.1: Starting the Code
  • Part 2.2: Initializing Allegro Graphics
  • Part 2.3: Using Fonts and Text
  • Part 2.4: Graphical Primitives
• Part 3
  • Part 3.0: Player Input and Events
  • Part 3.1: Keyboard Input Part 1
  • Part 3.2: Keyboard Input Part 2
  • Part 3.3: Mouse Inputs in Allegro 5
• Part 4
  • Part 4.0 – A Look at Timing
  • Part 4.1 – Timing Our Game Loop
  • Part 4.2 – Putting the Timing Together
• Part 5
  • 5.0 – Our First Game
  • 5.1 – Our First Game: The Player
  • 5.2 – Our First Game: Timing and Movement
  • 5.3 – Our First Game: The Projectiles
  • 5.4 – Our First Game: The Enemies
  • 5.5 – Our First Game: Collision Detection
  • 5.6 – Our First Game: Game Logic
  • 5.7 – Our First Game: Conclusion
• Part 6
  • 6.0 – Bitmaps
  • 6.1 – Creating Bitmaps
  • 6.2 – Loading Premade Bitmaps
  • 6.3 – Rotating, Scaling, Tinting Bitmaps
• Part 7
  • 7.0 – Sprites
  • 7.1 – Bitmap Transparency in Allegro 5
  • 7.2 – Basic Animation in Allegro 5
  • 7.3 – Using Allegro 5 to Create a Sprite Sheet
  • 7.4 – Sprite Sheet Animation in Allegro 5
• Part 8
  • 8.0 – Structured Sprites
  • 8.1 – Our Sprite Struct
  • 8.2 – Sprite Struct Demo
  • 8.3 – Sprite Struct Gravity Demo
• Part 9
  • 9.0 – Revisiting Our Game
  • 9.1 – Revisiting Our Game – The Player
  • 9.2 – Revisiting Out Game – The Comet
  • 9.3 – Revisiting Our Game – Explosions
• Part 10
  • 10.0 – It’s Finally Hear!
  • 10.1 – Playing a Sample
  • 10.2 – Playing Effects
  • 10.3 – Sample Instances
• Part 11
  • Part 11.0 – Backgrounds
  • Part 11.1 – Parallax Backgrounds
  • Part 11.2 – Tile Backgrounds
  • Part 11.3 – Tile Backgrounds with Mappy
• Part 12
  • 12.0 – Collision Detection
  • 12.1 – Bounding Rectangle Collision Detection
  • 12.2 – Distance Based Collision Detection
  • 12.3 – Pixel Perfect Collision Detection
• Part 13
  • 13.0 – Game States
  • 13.1 – Implementing Game States
  • 13.2 – Better Game State Implementation
  • 13.3 – Finite State Machine Artificial Intelligence
• Part 14
  • 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
• Conclusion
  • Conclusion
• Appendix
  
  • Destroying Objects
  • Helping Hand
  • Shell Code