Hi folks.
I am using SDL for my (first)2D game attempt, I am not using OpenGL, just SDL_FillRect and SDL_BlitSurface. For my 2D game I asked a lot of people and different people recommended different things, one side recommended to stick with SDL's BlitSurface, others recommended me to do it on OpenGL even if it was 2D. I think I will stick with just SDL for now, unless it is necessary. OpenGL is too hard for me at this point, especially when it requires more code to do the same thing I do with SDL with less functions.

Anyway, what I am trying to do is make my view/projection/map/whatever orthogonal, i.e I want the map to look like this game http://fortune3.to/game/ where it looks as if the map and character are viewed under an angle. Another game like that is https://s3.amazonaws...ld22/index.html. My map is tile-based right now, I use these sheets http://i.imgur.com/4cURq.png.
The red,green and..not sure what the other color is, square are what I walk on, the other things are the walls.

For my character I use these http://i.imgur.com/sUAE4.png Nothing fancy, at all. I just found them randomly and google, and decided to use them.
When you mash that, it looks like this http://i.imgur.com/LlPCt.png. The tiles it feels as if I am looking from above, but the character as if I am looking from the side. What I want it to look like is the games I showed you, not the same textures obviously, but I hope you got the point. But I have no idea whether a code change is needed, or the sprites need to be changed, or both.

Now, let me say this, the programming language I am using is C, because I have over a year experience with it, whereas C++ or say C# I have none, plus I don't like them, so using some game library/game engine which is written in C++ is not on my agenda(It's possible to mix C and C++, but you get why I don't want to use it). Actually, I want to write my own engine, just for myself of course, so I can use it for other projects. If possible, spare me the talk how C++ is better .

I think you mean isometric ?

You are the second person to interpret it differently. Some say it's Axonometric, others tell me it's Orthogonal. Anyway, you can see the difference here http://gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/22277/difference-between-orthogonal-map-and-isometric-map

So definitely orthogonal.

Well, these http://i.imgur.com/ZZ5fx.jpg http://i.imgur.com/EfZY3.jpg http://i.imgur.com/9zTuH.png

The textures are not the same, but to me it looks like the map or something is being viewed under an angle. Hopefully those clear it up.
But I have no idea if the textures or the code or both need to be changed. It would also be nice if I can be pointed to to a code example, if it's not too much to ask

Would you mind pointing me to such a tutorial?

Would you mind pointing me to such a tutorial?

It would have to be an art-style tutorial for how to draw pixel sprite graphics.
From the gamecodes perspective, its just square 2D sprites in a tilemap, without any projection at all.

Considering there are a lot of open source 2D games, and artists sharing their work, I've yet(whole week) to find tiles/sprites that are drawn the way I explained above. I am not an artist, I am not blessed with much accuracy and trust me, I can barely draw a 2D head, let alone whole tiles and sprites the way I want them to.

The character sprites I've found so far seem to have an animation for moving right, but not left.