Checkers with DirectX!! (noob)

hawflakes · 2003-08-16T21:37:16

Hello, I just finshed programming Bbattleship with the console, and previously, I did Tic-Tac-Toe and a Scrabble-like word game on it too. I have stuck my toe into Windows programming and have been looking at a couple of the DX8 SDK tutorials. My question is, which DirectX tutorials do I need to do to make this game? They seem focused on 3D, and Checkers is gonna be 2D, even if it is done with textures, vertices, whatever. I''m eager to get started on this project and I don''t want to waste my time or get bogged down in the wrong area of the SDK. Thanks.

Graphics and GPU Programming Programming

Started by hawflakes August 13, 2003 05:09 PM

10 comments, last by hawflakes 20 years, 8 months ago

Pipo DeClown

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August 15, 2003 03:52 PM

quote:Original post by Cipher3D
Hey! DirectX 8.0 is hard for a beginner to understand, and it gets harder when you try to use it to render in 2D! I suggest you go with a easy-to-use cross-platform library such as SDL - I haven''t used it, but its evidently very popular for 2D games programming. I suggest you look into it: www.libsdl.org.

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You should be able to learn the basics of DirectX from tutorialsites, (e-)books, and the DirectX SDK docs.

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