Game Development with SDL 2.0 (Steam Dev Days 2014)
What it is
Ryan Gordon (Icculus) gives a high-level overview of SDL 2.0 at Steam Dev Days 2014. He covers its features and how it eases building, porting and maintaining games, including Linux ports.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN commenters link it when people ask about cross-platform game development and for details like SDL's licensing change.
- 1 people recommended it
- 1 different months
- 0 strong recommendations
- first 2015, last 2020
What HN commenters said
“Here's someone talking about it at a steam dev day”
Steam Dev Days talk about game development with SDL
EliRivers, 2015-04 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: What are you using for cross platform games?”
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Topics: sdl2, ryan gordon, game porting, linux gaming, steam dev days
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