Beginning 2d games development

[fryForever]

I am not a complete beginner to c++, I can make programs that only interact with the user via text, and would like to move on to some 2d games. How should I begin to do that? Does anyone know of any good tutorials to get started with this?

[thekashyap]

Donno of any tutorials purely for gaming purpose.. I'm sure you'll find lotsa threads talking abt problems with gaming here.. I would suggest that you pick an idea from one of those and start off..
What you'll need to learn of course is user I/O which you say already know.. additionally good knowledge of printf format strings would help..

[laconstantine]

3dbuzz have VTM's on coding a 2D game called "Evil Monkeys" with OpenGL API

The VTM's package costs money.

Here is their website www.3DBUZZ.com

[thekashyap]

2D game with OpenGL API

I assumed fryForever wanted some text based games and not some OpenGL based graphics.
Clarify..

[fryForever]

I'm not the best at user input output, but I'm not the worst either, so if you know of a website that has good tutorials on that, it couldn't hurt to take a look right? Also, not necessarily games, but to start off, maybe move a single dot accross the screen? And I was wondering if I would do this in opengl or directx, or if there was a different way maybe.

[Sturm]

here is good allegro tutorials. And here is good SDL tutorials.