5545: Whenever your parents grounded you, you had numerous backups and fail-safes to get around them just to get to Omni.

(Semi-true story, I always had hidden items that allowed me to get past their restrictions. No games? Secret gameboy. No internet? Secretly fixed wireless on laptop. No keyboard? On-screen keyboard)

So many ways to get past them all without getting caught.

Graphics using just C++ and OS API's is downright hellish. Personally, I use SFML for all my graphics, audio, networking, and input handling. It's pretty capable, comparable to SDL.

http://www.sfml-dev.org/

Here's some code to get you started:

http://pastebin.com/UyWeRy4W

Edit: It may do well to offer a bit of actual explanation of what is going on in the code. Basically, all we are doing is setting up a window, creating a view for that window, as well as a clock for smooth movement and a drawable object.

Then we enter the main loop which reads events, then inputs, then acts on those inputs. Afterwards, we clear the screen, draw everything, then update. that's basically everything going on in your basic graphics program, read, process, output. Or in this case, events, inputs, update, draw.

Edit 2: It should also be noted that Visual C++ 2012, is just C++ compiled using MSVC 2012. It's no different than C++ compiled with, say, GCC, save for little C++0x and no C++14 support and some MSVC features added to it.

The videos leading me to find those are also interesting





I'm experimenting with that last one.

I put this in Computer Programming since I thought it was the most generic section.

Anyways, I'm doing a series of Youtube videos to show, not only game programming in C++, but also game design in general. Planning out the game, modeling the code using UML, writing a small storyboard, etc. Right now I'm doing a small sample with a tile map editor to work out any flaws in my videos and to serve as an introduction. So far I have 5 episodes made.

Please tell me what you think and what I can do to improve.

Well, welcome to Omni then~

Hopefully you will find more reasons to do more than lurk now you have an account

Anyways, honorary specially packaged peanuts for you!

#define SIGN_PATH "data/signs/"
#include<SFML/graphics.hpp>

class sign : public sf::Drawable{
public:
    sign();
    ~sign();
private:
    sf::Texture t;
    sf::Sprite s;
    virtual void draw(sf::RenderTarget& target, sf::RenderStates states) const;
};

sign::sign(){
    t = sf::Texture();
    s = sf::Sprite()
    t.loadFromFile(SIGN_PATH "#5518");
    s.setTexture(t);
}
sign::~sign(){
}
void sign::draw(sf::RenderTarget& target, sf::RenderStates states){
    target.draw(s);
}

int main(){
    sf::RenderWindow app(sf::VideoMode(800, 600), "Reason");
    sign omni;
    while(app.isOpened)
        app.draw(omni);
    return 0;
}//Slightly reduced code. Incomplete

I saw this yesterday and was shocked with the EA games.

Also check out their weekly sale before it ends. Defcon, Darwinia/Multiwinia, and Uplink also come with their source code