i’m going to “learn” C++ and use Allegro to handle the media; that’ll probably come as something of a surprise to a few people who know me because i’ve tried learning C++ a couple of times previously with absolutely no luck. The trick, for me at least, seems to be totally ignoring any reference books or tutorials because within a day of installing CodeBlocks and fiddling around to get it working with Allegro i’ve got working code out of it!
i could probably cobble a very simple game together by this evening as long as i didn’t use objects and linked lists but i don’t want to subject people to my coding “experiments” quite that much, so i’m going to look into linked lists within C++ (before giving up and using arrays no doubt) and am sticking with the arena shooting theme for the project as a whole. There’s no name for it yet, but that’ll come sooner or later.
Tags: Allegro, C++, game, programming, shmup, shoot ‘em up, STG