Wasn't there one competition like that already?

Yes, I found the results.

[EDIT] Personally, I like this:

Well, that has nothing to do with OOP (nor does writing C++ have anything to do with OOP - it's a style of programming, not a language feature) and C99 allows this too. That said, Allegro code is pre-C99 and declaring variables halfway a function is evil and ugly anyway.

I don't know if we can, but I sure think that we shouldn't. Never mind how funny it is or if it's intended in good spirit or not, we don't want to come off as bashing SDL. Ultimately, that's not going to do Allegro any good, and there's room for both libraries to coexist anyway.
Does SDL have some sort of mascot? If so, having a two player game where one player controls Alex and the other controls the SDL mascot would be ok in my opinion - but maybe we should ask for permission.

Something I remembered when I looked at the contents of demo.dat: the sample of Shawn saying `welcome to Allegro'. I think we should keep that.

Other than that, sounds great! I've seen some very good and interesting ideas.

no, it still ugly and its easy to loose a defns if theyre intersperced in the code... Or so I find.

Could we postpone the coding guideline wars? Or move them to another forum? It's hard to believe how easy it is to derail a thread here...

I like it. Maybe the "A" could be left out though, so it says just "Allegro Game Programming Library".. sounds somehow better to me. Like it's not just any game programming library, but the game programming library. Or don't know - the "A" just sounds odd to me. Could just be me though

Marcello, look again: it says Allegro A game programming library, he wants it changed to Allegro Game Programming Library; I like the idea, and second it.

edit: hey sc-- I'm looking at the template you posted, and I noticed some odd things right off the bat, in the for loop in hiscore_init, you do ++a instead of a++, what is the significance of this -- from what I understand, in this context, I think I would be correct in guessing nothing would be different? Sorry that my code-fu is not up to date...

edit: as far as gfx/sfx being compatable with the allegro license, I belive allegro is the only thing I've ever seen released as "gift ware" or whatever it is (or am I confused...?) -- is the GPL compatable with the allegro license?

I genereally prefer ++a if it wouldn't make a difference. As you say, it makes no difference, so why do you think it's odd?

Regarding the "a":

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     \ \  __ \ \ \ \  \ \ \   /'__`\ /'_ `/\`'__/ __`\
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                A game programming library.

             By Shawn Hargreaves, Jan 23, 2005.

                See the AUTHORS file for a
               complete list of contributors.

But it wouldn't bea problem to remove the "a".

Hm, or as mentioned in that other thread, it actually could be called "multimedia library".

Or spinning, rotating vectors! A demoscene style Allegro splash would be impressive.

Anyone have a program for recording what you type in. So you can run a replay of the writing process, like some c64 demos and such...

Would be cool to present the allegro ascii like that.

Are you going to include the throw the javelin game? I like that one..

Umm, were you going to share the template with us? or did you decide just to do only one demo game, yourself? (did I miss a post?)