Text is an important part of almost all games. From informing the player of the awesome combo that they just got, to menu titles, button captions and epic storylines. In this tutorial, we will take a look at SDL_ttf, an addon library for SDL that uses the FreeType library to load fonts and render text.

Here it is, the new design. There's still a few things that need fixed up, but I think most things should be good to go. Let me know if you find any issues with any area of the site. I'll be adding new features as we go, and hopefully some new tutorials.

Hrm, I found this link. I wonder what it could be?

http://beta.sdltutorials.com/

Remember folks, this is a work in development and it won't replace this site just yet. Some things are missing, not formatted right, or just don't work. So, do you like it? Hate it? Want certain nifty features?

Let me know!

P.S.
Tested only on Chrome (webkit) for now. Firefox and IE9 should mostly be okay. IE8 or lower? Err, why are you using IE anyway?

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This is actually a common issue that I see popup every once in a while. You want to load in your images using SDL_image (or just SDL), but you then ne

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