The first milestones I've set for myself about a month ago have been met. As of yesterday I got text working in my engine [smile]. The milestones were

2D Rendering Device
Audio Player
Graphic Object class
Derived Graphic Window class (holds other graphics)
Text rendering to the screen
Text rendering to windows
Basic Input

I've still got some debugging to do as my framerate has dropped a bit. I did a little optimizing yesterday but I need to figure out whether the slowdown is caused by the audio player or the font handling.



I'm starting to feel like this guy: