raylib vs SDL2 vs Allegro. Which would you recommend for simple games?

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  • sdl2-tutorial

    sdl2+c tutorial

    • Check out the SDL2 Game Tutorials, they're C only and cover basics, graphics, sound and bitmap fonts, see also the Github sources of this series. If you want to use TTF fonts there's another C tutorial at that site.

  • LearnC

    Contains source code and resources for the Ebook Learn C Games Programming For Beginners Windows edition.

    • I wrote asteroids in C + SDL2 about 2,000 lines of code and that included high score table, and high speed pixel perfect collision detection. The code is here: Windows C source code (Visual Studio), or Linux C Source code (VS Code + clang). The chapter 48 has the full version; the other chapters are steps.

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  • LearnCOnLinux

    A website for the 2nd ebook. Learn C Games Programming for beginners on Lionux

    • I wrote asteroids in C + SDL2 about 2,000 lines of code and that included high score table, and high speed pixel perfect collision detection. The code is here: Windows C source code (Visual Studio), or Linux C Source code (VS Code + clang). The chapter 48 has the full version; the other chapters are steps.

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