Game Development with SDL 2.0 (Steam Dev Days 2014)

This talk will offer a high-level overview of Simple Directmedia Layer 2.0. It will cover the features of the library and how it can make your game easier to build, port, improve and maintain.

Speaker: Ryan Gordon (Icculus)

[dandymcgee]

This guy is a literal legend. Here's a list of just some of the things he has helped port to Linux:

Left 4 Dead 2
Unreal Tournament
Call of Duty
Medal of Honor
Rocket League
Google Earth
Crysis Wars
Battlefield 1942
Psychonauts
Serious Sam
America's Army
Postal 2
Postal 1
Second Life
Killing Floor
Dungeon Defenders
Dungeons of Dredmor
Braid
Super Meat Boy
The End is Nigh
Aquaria
Dear Esther
Lugaru HD
Sanctum 2
Goat Simulator
LIMBO

[SonyCommander]

So much to talk about and so little time, but this guy nails it without exploding! Nice!

[EddieKMusic]

Holy crap. I'm convinced. I haven't written a single line of code in SDL, but I already fallen in love with it. No more SFML. SDL, here I come!

[saxxonpike]

I have tried about two dozen different libraries to try and figure out what is most suitable for my retro-style projects. SDL came out out on top. Thank you for talking more about it!

[FemmeAndroid]

Great job answering questions throughout.  Hit on a ton of information, repeated questions for the viewers.  Thanks!  Actually considering starting a new project in SDL over something else after watching this.  My only fear is my lack of time.

[asphantix]

This was a great presentation. I will definitely check out SDL 2

[GottZ]

just because of this, i started using sdl. srsly. i'm loving it for its simplicity.

[Epitaph]

I love this talk. I can feel the enthusiasm!

[ThreeQuartersSerious]

Re-affirmed my decision to use SDL. Great presentation.

[ducksoop.x]

2019 and SDL is still a great little library to use.

[l_t_m_f]

This is my favorite and most used library ever. Thanks for making it. I wish I can one day contribute to it.

[songersoft]

Really good presentation. Thank you SDL. Thank you guys.

[PoppySeed]

this guy is a genius... its amazing how knowledgeable he is about his passion...

[wagnerc]

I am giving this great video a rewatch now that I finally have SDL2 linked up in VS. =)

[polypus]

This is a library that dos not get enough 'media' coverage. Good and necessary talk; i wish there were more like it.

[kinsondigital]

Quick recommendation. Improve the website, documentation and adding of more quick samples to the documentation.

[GouStoulos]

the oddworld t-shirt made me love him even more

[SoloR]

I have been flip flopping between focusing on SDL2 or SFML2 for the past like 5 months. I keep coming back to this video and assure myself that I should stay with SDL.

[Murderface]

There needs to be better tutorials for using SDL2 and creating games. Something similar to what XNA with small samples would be more productive, because everybody is not at the same level as everybody else in regards to game programming.

[awesomeamazing]

I use SDL2.0 and OpenGL for my games :) SDL seems to works perfectly and fast