It can been seen as a low low low level Game Engine graphic subsystem .

but what is more important is: what is the story behind your profile picture where did you get it and do you know what it is?

Allegro stands for Allegro Low LEvel Game ROutines. It's a graphics library. It's not really a game engine, as you can make it do many many things. But mainly it's a graphics and game library.

Your avatar reminds me of a QR code.

Brother your avatar is more important than you think. It is incomplete however it is very similar to the manifestation of God that I am currently working on. It is interesting that you randomly drew this. The doily from my grand'ma house must be very very old and have links to Egypt. Trace your roots back to Africa Egypt if you want to learn more. this is where all came from in the Beginning.

Allegro is not just a graphics library, albeit that is a large part of what it does. It's a game programming library, with routines for loading images of various formats, and loading audio formats and producing sounds. It is a low-level library: by itself it won't do anything. You need to glue its pieces together with your own program to make it do something useful. It's basically a wrapper around other lower-level libraries to give you a single API to combine all of the basic elements required to create simple games (loading data files, playing sounds and audio streams, and drawing primitives and images).

Many people end up developing their own sort of "engine" on top of Allegro to build games with, though most people that get things done just hack away with Allegro and focus on their game. Allegro can be used for purposes other than games too: it can be used to create other programs that require the services that Allegro provides, like a music player or a text editor.

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I tried installing Django for Python for a scalable website. I ended up HATING IT because there was no loop, no main, nothing. You just told it "what I wanted" and "it" somehow, somewhere, turns magical gears that gives you the results you want... when it's actually working correctly.

I hate that feeling. I'm fine using addons, but I want to be the one in control of the function path. At the very least, it's important when debugging when things don't work.

"It clips at the edge". Well, I know exactly where tile drawing occurs, so let me figure it out, as opposed to hoping there's some tutorial or forum post with the exact problem and answer that the devs can explain how their magic works and when it fails with some obscure problem like "textures that aren't square, are clipped unevenly based on the distance from the transformation matrix to the ..."

I completed a basic tutorial with Django. I liked it. It does suck when there's a black box that you plug your software into, and it either works or doesn't.

At least Django is open source though. You can find the main loop, and I wouldn't be surprised if you're able to control it too. Most users of a framework like that though will have the same main loop, and it saves them the trouble of having to write it properly every time.

I had the same problem that I had with all other frameworks that I tried to learn: I had nothing to really build with it so I didn't actually learn/memorize it enough to use it for real world software. I don't even remember the tutorial anymore.

I'm working with SDL2 and I want to punch a wall. It's insanely unnecessarily hard to do things.

If you used SDL2 regularly, you'd probably think "draw a tinted or transparent bitmap" is some sort of AAA, worldstar hiphop, class skill that nobody can try. How the !@$! did SDL2 ever become popular?

I dare you, right now, to google "SDL2 lightmap example" and find one example that works. Most of what I find is people asking about it and they're like "you're gonna need OpenGL and shaders." ... what...?

And, instead of being able to set blending levels on the fly, they expect you to solely use premade alpha channels from files. Go look right now. There is no "tint to 50%" bitmap function, or blender setting, or anything. You can set the blender mode (formula) and that's. it.

Want to draw lighting, or "blood" decals with varying levels of alpha on an tilemap? You better have a 8 year Ph.D. in game programming and 20 year veteran industry experience according to SDL2 logic.

I cannot stress how simple the task I want is, and how much Googling and manual effort is needed to do it. Like, I'm almost tempted to run a Control-F and port the damn thing to Allegro.

If Allegro does that so much better why not advertise that fact? But are all other things equal?

I never left Allegro. =D It's an SDL project.

Also, I was wrong. There are blender mod functions. But NONE of the usual keyword searches came up with it, and the SDL2 API docs are a dumpster fire, and I stand by the complete lack of useful forum posts and tutorials.

I work in Django every day... I wish I was working in allegro.

LOVE is a framework, not an engine.

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