Despite its awesome success as a hobby system, the Raspberry Pi is seldom looked on as a machine that lets you write or play your own graphical games. There are emulators, of course, and those are a great introduction to the style of retro games most old-school coders cut their teeth on as spotty youths. However, you don’t see many original games written for the Pi, on the Pi, by Pi coders. Let’s try to change that.
Game coding, on Raspberry Pi, in a professional language like C/C++ isn’t apparently very popular, but why? The Pi is more than capable of doing cool graphics, has (nearly) all the tools needed on board, and just enough horsepower to easily create and run high-octane 2D games. It can even push a decent amount of polys around to create some quite exciting 3D experiences.
There’s simply no reason not to write cool games on the … // Read more: original article.

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