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What are the best engines for a (small) indie game? I am interested in info about how much does it takes to familiarize self with the engine, special functions et cetera.
In addition, I would like to know what physics engine I should use for this type of game.
Even though I don't know if its the "best" for what your doing but, SDL is pretty good. You can write in C++ with it. It's 2D and good for indies. Plus, its cross platform so its not just limited to PC. Also there's Box2d which is a 2D physics engine in C++.
Just taking a stab. But, you should really clarify exactly what you want to do.
This depends a lot on what you want to do (i.e. genre of game and features). I suggest you check out the canonical http://www.gamedev.net/ which has covered this topic several times (both in articles and forums).
Try this one: http://oxygine.org/
It is modern hardware accelerated framework for 2D C++ games, could be build on top of SDL or Marmalade.
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Is there a learning resource that goes over the ins and outs of game programming in C++? I'm looking for something thorough that details the industry standards, tricks, and common approaches rather than just a "build a game in 10 steps" type material - something like the C++ Primer for games. What would a good book or tutorial be?
It depends to a degree on what kind of game you want to make. If you're planning on using a premade engine (like Unity), then the documentation on that would be the best bet.
If you're planning to build a 3D gameengine from scratch, and you want it to work on anything other than just Windows, then you'd need to learn OpenGL. There are some excellent OpenGL tutorials at http://nehe.gamedev.net/ , but for a full treatment you'd do well to read the OpenGL Red Book, the definitive OpenGL reference: http://www.opengl-redbook.com/.
If you're planning to make a 2D game engine, then check out SDL: http://www.libsdl.org/. It's cross-platform and relatively simple to use, and you can also optionally use 3D with it via OpenGL.
I'd advise that the first decision you make (if you haven't already decided) should be: do I want to roll my own game engine, or use a premade one?
The book that I used to learn and would recommend is Introduction to 3D Game Programming with DirectX 11
Pro OGRE 3D Programming (Expert's Voice in Open Source) was what we used at vizible (www.vizible.com)
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I'm studying physics and I know C++ at a basic level. at my study it's sometimes really useful to create a program which can graphicly represent some data or do calculations and then graphicly represent them. I read that, for example, to be able to master the basics of openGL I would need to do a 10 week long course of openGL. But that is too much time.
I'm wondering if there are any libraries available (for windows) which allow me to do some easy stuff like:
-DrawPixel(x,y,color)
-DrawCircle/Line/Shape/Polygon([list of points])/Triangle/Square (+rotation)
-DrawImage(filename,width,height,etc...)
-DrawText()
Is there any library which has this easyness? It would be really cool because if I do something (create a program) and I need to explain my team (who have never programmed) how I have done it (the program / results), this would make it much easier to explain!
I looked at SDL, HGE, OpenFrameworks (somewhat the "closest" yet still far away) and a few other popular libraries but they are all so far away.. why is there no such easy library?
Are there any available which are just not being found with the keywords i search in google?
I would suggest that you take a look at cinder. Try out the Hello Cinder tutorial. I think you will find it supports your needs by providing an abstraction layer above DirectX or OpenGL.
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I am new to C++. I am using CodeBlock for development.
As a learning exercise I want to write chess game with UI.
Can someone help me in identifying what tool and library I would need to for showing a chess board GUI
what algorithm I need to read to implement chess rules ?
any else I need to know ...
There are plenty of GUI-toolkits, GTK and Qt come to mind as two. See How do I build a GUI in C++? for more suggestions.
Or if you want to do the board "by-hand" then you might want to try SDL.
As for chess algorithms, it depends what you're looking for. A chess AI? A way to compute if someone is in check/checkmate? I think it might be more interesting to try and come up with your own first, then look around at others. Although if you just want some suggestions or reading material, then this and this looks promising.
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Are there any 3D C++ based game engines or rendering libraries that just provide a little abstraction from the OpenGL API? I don't want a GUI, just code to build off of. If possible, cross-platform or Linux-Windows-Mac Compatable.
SDL is a common library for doing things like this, and I highly recommend. Although, it does not use OpenGL for rendering, but you have the ability to use OpenGL with it.
SFML is a great alternitive for SDL. The only problem is that it's not C supported (although if you're using C++, that isn't a problem), and that it's not very adopted yet, in oppose to SDL, so the chances are you're not going to get as much support and help as if you're using SDL.
Allegro is an option that works for both C and C++, which gives the user a easy to use interface, and self explanatory functions. Although it isn't as advanced as the other two library.
For just graphics a great start would be Irrlicht. You can switch between OpenGL, DirectX, and a software renderer, without learning any API specific stuff.
Hope this helps!
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Does anyone know a good resource or some pointers which could help me make a side scrolling tile based (descreet movement for character) with box pushing and moving platforms etc. I'm focused right now C/C++ console development (tho after this project I may stop and do stuff a little more graphical, still C/C++). Something bit like Super Serib Bros. I've taken a look at the code of SSB and I have some idea of how it works, tho the variable names aren't particularly helpful.
It occurs to me someone somewhere must have thought about his problem before. So before I go re-inventing the wheel, any clues?
You'd probably be best signing in one of the better known game development groups, for example GameDev or DevMaster as well as checking out the stuff Microsoft pushes.
I'm not sure how many resources you will find for making games, as most open source games develop their own tools and commercial games keep their tools private.
I think that the best strategy is to start from scratch, using existing low-level libraries.
For C++, I recommend using Box2d for physics and HGE for graphics. I have also heard that python's pygame library is good, but have not tried it myself.
I use a an editor/engine called RPG Maker for fun in my spare time. You can download the demo for free. It is a tile based rpg engine and is pretty basic, but the engine is written in ruby and can be browsed very easily.