Learn SDL2

Learn how to track mouse movements and button states across your entire application, even when the mouse leaves your window.

Learn techniques for managing game data, including save systems, configuration, and networked multiplayer.

Learn how to handle byte order in using SDL's endianness functions

Learn how memory alignment affects data serialization and how to handle it safely

Learn how to create and manage fullscreen windows in SDL, including desktop and exclusive fullscreen modes.

Learn how to manage screen resolutions and refresh rates in SDL games using display modes.

Learn how to control display brightness and gamma correction using SDL's window management functions

Learn how to create SDL applications that look great on modern displays across different platforms

Explore window creation, configuration, and event handling using SDL's windowing system

Discover how to monitor and respond to window state changes in SDL applications

Learn how to control and monitor the position of SDL windows on screen

Learn how to resize, constrain, and manage SDL2 windows

Learn how to control the visibility of SDL2 windows, including showing, hiding, minimizing, and more

Implement mouse constraints in SDL2 to control cursor movement using window grabs and rectangular bounds

Learn how to restrict cursor movement to a window whilst capturing mouse motion continuously.

Step-by-step guide on creating the SDL2 application and event loops for interactive games

Learn how to detect and handle mouse input events in SDL, including mouse motion, button clicks, and window entry/exit.

Learn how to detect and respond to keyboard input events in your SDL-based applications. This lesson covers key events, key codes, and modifier keys.

Learn how to manage and control window input focus in SDL applications, including how to create, detect, and manipulate window focus states.

Learn how to detect and handle keyboard input in SDL2 using both event-driven and polling methods. This lesson covers obtaining and interpreting the keyboard state array.

Learn how to detect and handle mouse scroll wheel events in SDL2, including vertical and horizontal scrolling, as well as scroll wheel button events.

Learn how to track and respond to mouse focus events in SDL2, including handling multiple windows and customizing focus-related click behavior.

Learn how to monitor mouse position and button states in real-time using SDL's state query functions

Learn how to use callbacks with SDL_AddTimer() to provide functions that are executed on time-based intervals

An overview of the options we have for building flexible notification systems between game components

Learn how to create smooth, time-aware game loops that behave consistently across different hardware configurations

Learn to measure time intervals with high accuracy in your games

Learn to create flexible and modular code with function pointers

Explore advanced techniques for working with class member functions

Using Tick() functions to update game objects independently of events

Learn to write and append data to files using SDL2's I/O functions.

Learn how to read and parse game data stored in external files using SDL_RWops

Implement flag placement and tracking to complete your Minesweeper project.

An introduction to the generic engine classes we'll use to create the game

Implement win/loss detection and add a restart feature to complete the game loop

Designing a flexible component for handling images in SDL-based applications

Key techniques for implementing class designs in more complex scenarios

Learn how to create and customize windows, covering initialization, window management, and rendering

Learn how to create a flexible and extensible UI system using C++ and SDL, focusing on component hierarchy and polymorphism.

Explore techniques for building UI components that respond to user input

Learn how to load, display, and optimize image rendering in your applications

Learn to precisely control image display using source and destination rectangles.

Learn techniques for scaling images and working with aspect ratios

Learn to load, manipulate, and save various image formats using SDL_Image.

Explore advanced techniques for optimizing and controlling text rendering when using SDL_ttf

Implement the techniques for detecting nearby bombs and clearing empty cells automatically.

Updating the game to to place bombs randomly in the grid and render them when cells are cleared.

Building a two-dimensional grid of interactive minesweeper cells

Learn to render and manipulate text in SDL2 applications using the official SDL_ttf extension

Discover techniques for detecting and responding to SDL runtime errors

Discover how to use the SDL2 event system to handle custom, game-specific interactions

Learn the essentials of double buffering in C++ with practical examples and SDL2 specifics to improve your graphics projects

A step-by-step guide on setting up SDL2 and useful extensions in a project that uses CMake as its build system

This guide walks you through the process of compiling SDL2, SDL_image, and SDL_ttf libraries from source

This step-by-step guide shows you how to set up SDL2 in an Xcode or CMake project on macOS

A step-by-step tutorial on configuring SDL2, SDL_image and SDL_ttf in a Visual Studio C++ project on Windows

Learn how to implement some more advanced math functions, with some help from the C++ standard library.

Learn the basics of maths and geometry, so we can represent concepts like positions and distances between objects in our worlds.

Learn some more vector math, and see how we can use it to implement gameplay movement.