Thanks so much for all the help

Would you recommend any in particular? Like which one is easier for someone to pickup and go with?
Im not too concerned with mobile though

Edit:
Toying around a bit, I found that the build error is coming in the load_files function, namely it is returning false no matter what.
I had this before in another load_image instance and I just had to remake the file, but it isn't working here. Any tips? lolz xP
Edit:
Nevermind! Got it, I had the x.png in the debug folder, when it needed to be in the project folder!
Thank you SO much!! You have no idea how awesome it is to have this working xD

Glad I could help. SFML is probably going to be easier for you to learn, but once you built a simple framework around SDL or SFML it wont matter.