The aim of this project is to provide a simple way of using Allegro 5 library. The idea was born when some programming teachers from La Salle Barcelona decided to ask their students to implement a videogame as a mandatory exercice to pass the subject. Those teachers spent time deciding which graphics library to use. Finally, they chose to use Allegro 5 because of it's native simplicity. However, they realised that a simplification of Allegro 5 must be implemented because many of the students from Programming I have never coded before and some concepts from Allegro would sound very difficult for them. That's why LS_Allegro was born and since then this module has been used by all the students of Programming I in La Salle Barcelona.
The developer of this project is Albert Lloveras (assistant teacher from La Salle) but other teachers, students and external coders have contributed to it. The idea is to try to keep this project alive as much as we can because videogame development is always a good way to motivate students to learn programming skills.
The project is cross-platform so it can be used under Windows, MacOS and Linux platforms. To work with this interface you should have installled Allegro 5 previously on your computer and follow those steps below:
Clone the repository
git clone https:/alloveras/LS_Allegro.git
Copy the LS_allegro.c and LS_allegro.h files to your videogame project.
Add the following flags to the compiler linker
##Linux / MacOS
allegro allegro_main allegro_primitives allegro_color allegro_ttf allegro_image allegro_acodec allegro_audio allegro_memfile
##Windows
liballegro-5.0.10-monolith-mt-debug.a
##Contact
If you have any doubts or questions feel free to send me an email!
Albert Lloveras Carbonell [email protected]