Alright Guys I have been scouring the internet for sometime now and I still have not been able to find ONE Tutorial on how to start out making your own 2D engine, or even simple games like Pong and it's source code that actually works. By the way I use Visual C++ 2010. I really love the feel of programming but the simple console applications aren't cutting it anymore. If you guys have any suggestion at all of where to find any GOOD Tutorials, by all means please go ahead and share all help help will be VERY much appreciated!

Thanks,

Going off of Alpha:

In the Latest Articles:

Tetris - Which is a game that comes highly recommended to start with.

2D Platformers - Information for creating a platformer.

I know the Tetris one tends to show up a lot on the home page.

Yes, and I would also like to add I have been trying to work SDL and SFML and neither of them work at all! Can't find a very good tutorial on those either. Sorry if i'm coming off a negative person its just I would really love to start programming and making something.

Well, what experience do you have programming? How capable are you?

I know enough to look at a language(programming) I don't even know the syntax of and be able to read it and see what its doing. Most of experience is in C++.

Try serapth's tutorial: http://www.gamefromscratch.com/page/Game-From-Scratch-CPP-Edition.aspx

Tried that the other day and couldn't get SFML to work, Link error: LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'sfml-system-d.lib'

What do your linker settings look like?

http://www.sfml-dev.org/tutorials/2.0/start-vc.php ,this is official SFML tutorial on their homepage how to setup SFML on VS 2010.