You can make any game you can imagine with Allegro.

Well, this sounds very nice. Allegro sounds like DirectX to me now, but i think i'm getting something bad again.

Anyway, it sounds as the game cretion process takes a lot of time. Yea, i can see that by trying to figure out that damn collide thing for an hour. Tried every way i know at the moment, didn't worked, haven't found anything on the internet. Yea, that takes time.

But as i see this, if you would have the resources (information, guides, wikis, knowleddge bases and stuff like that) for the allegro, i think it would be possible to create a mario like game in a day. Although i don't know much yet, but well, i'm learning, trying to learn at least, trying to do something. Although, i won't be able to do anything with graphics, i'm just bad with photoshop, so i gotta look for already made free gfxes or something like that.

Anyway, thanks for the... information.

But still i'm interested in one thing. Actually thought just a second ago, are there any big games created in allegro? I mean commercial games. I mean i'm just interested, i'm not going to drop allegro or something, i'm going to create a few 2D games for sure, just curious.

This is the best game ever made in Allegro: http://timewarp.sourceforge.net/

I remember that game, but not the name. It was quite good, I'd recommend it.

I liked Monster, that the moment I could purchase Monster 2 I gladly paid. If you manage to sell your game, (even if you don't sell as many as expected,) you must be doing something right. Especially if your users can just download it for free.

If I had an IPhone I would have purchased it on that too, because the improvements look great.

I think I will shush before I look like a sock puppet.

Very, very doubtful.

Let's see what needs to be made for a basic Mario clone:

• Basic start screen

• A way to display the visible portion of the map

• Loading/saving of map (map format including a tile map, enemy positions and behaviours, powerups, checkpoints etc)

• Goals & death (ending the game, restarting from a certain point on death, switching level etc)

• Way to switch between maps (loading & unloading assets as needed)

• Basic physics engine for a platform game (possible to use something pre-existing, like box2d - but then you'd have to make that behave in a way you feel is suitable for a platformer)

• Map editor (possible to use a text format for maps, but that would probably take more time in the long run)

• Code for the player, monsters, powerups and tiles

• All graphics (player, tiles, monsters, powerups, GUI stuff)

• All levels (made with above mentioned map editor)

• Sound effects

• Music

Did I forget anything?

Thanks everyone for replies! There are really some nice games around there. Downloaded all of them, haven't tried yet though.

Hmmm, as for mario... Okay, it couldn't then. I guess i need more information on what's neccesary for game creation. For example that physics engine, i thought now, that it's with allegro library... Eh, anyway, i'm still into non-physics games, like view from the up, like snake. Later i'll need to gather that information. But currently i need to make the snake work, as my first project with Allegro.

Temporal is the game I was thinking of earlier. I still recommend it.

Yup, i've wasted some time on Icy Tower too. You know, "technology" class at our school was to make HTML pages... So while everyone's writing down, i play, after she gives us the exercise, i make it in a few minutes and keep playing. Lesson = 40 minutes. So yea, about 35-40 minutes of gameplay. Unfortunently i was sitting near an old CRT monitor with 60 hertz (pain in my eyes after ~5 minutes) and plus there wasn't any games installed on IT class (Python), would've wasted even more time on Icy Tower, hehe. Didn't knew it was made in Allegro, pretty nice game.

As for the mario thing... Yea, i just realized once more and even deeper, that it's hard to create such games... I cannot even make a snakeman game. -.- Though not much info floating around, at least not enough for me about that...

Anyway, thanks for the answer, still have them downloaded, but haven't played, was trying to figure out about the snakeman thing... :/

Another pretty well known Allegro game series is Alex The Allegator. It's written by Johan Peitz, who has already been mentioned, but I don't think the particular series has been mentioned yet. Along with Icy Tower, I believe Alex The Allegator 4 (a platformer) is available in popular Linux distro repositories (and more than likely there are also Windows binaries available).

http://www.allegro.cc/depot/Thegame/

Take a look at the feature in the list.

It is currently being ported to allgro 5

Saucelifter (it says demo, but it's the complete game) is one of the best I've played. It's a remake of Choplifter. I remember it from the C64 25 years ago