game programming

[death]

I love making games, it's what i'll do for a living.
but i need to learn more things before its ever possible for me to make them in c++.

like
1. I don't understand openGL at all, i have a basic basic understanding of glut but i can't move up to openGL no matter how many times i try to read my "beginner OpenGL game development book" any help?

2. just curiouse but why do i always see these codes for resizing the window, if glut can handle it automaticly, does it mess with your code if you don't specify certain things?

3. I'm also hearing from some sites that it's mostly a windows thing, and others that its cross-platform (personally i believe its cross-platform) which is it?

[C-Man]

1. You should just completely forget about windows specifics for now , try using SDL it's pretty easy and makes a nice place to start when trying OpenGL. http://gpwiki.org/index.php/C:SDL_OGL
Immagine OpenGL just draws triangles with textures (it does way more then that but you shouldn't concern your self with that yet)
2.As i said , forget about it , use SDL for now. Some people just like to torture themselves.
3.OpenGL is crossplatform (works on linux, bsd, windows, mac os x to name a few, and some popular consoles have a very similar ogl based apie like the PS3 has PSGL which is based on OpenGL)  , and has binding for alot of languages. (python , C/C++ , pascal, C#, java, etc...)
it's the initialization part that varies accross platforms , but again just use SDL , and don't bother with the rest)

[death]

thank you. I'll start that, can SDL be uused on more then one platform? and is it easy to make games with?

[C-Man]

yes it can , it's supported on windows, linux, bsd, mac os x and even BeOS lol
and yeah it's pretty simple

[death]

I don't know, for some reason i think openGL looks better

EDIT: scratch that, SDL looks great, and very easy to learn, i can already load an image onto my program with 14 lines of code, it took aprox 30 in openGL

[PiedotTaste]

SDL GL is OpenGL AND SDL, SDL handles the windows initialisation and then you use OpenGL to do the rendering - I think this is what C-Man was suggesting, not that you do SDL instead of OpenGL

[C-Man]

exactly

[death]

thanks pie, he already explained most of that in chat