From: Looking to get into sprite-based 2D game programming

[quote name="Alpha_ProgDes" post="5050428" timestamp="1365198301" date="05 April 2013 - 04:45 PM"]
As far as what direction to go, I would suggest: this article and this article.

As far as libraries and tutorials, I would suggest Lazy Foo's SDL or Seraph's SFML tutorials for starters.[/quote]


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