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Three Guys Apocalypse
Water Closet
Blob Wars : Attrition
The Legend of Edgar
TBFTSS: The Pandoran War
Three Guys
Blob Wars : Blob and Conquer
Blob Wars : Metal Blob Solid
Project: Starfighter
TANX Squadron

Android Games

DDDDD
Number Blocks
Match 3 Warriors

Tutorials

2D shoot 'em up
2D top-down shooter
2D platform game
Sprite atlas tutorial
Working with TTF fonts
2D adventure game
Widget tutorial
2D shoot 'em up sequel
2D run and gun
Roguelike
Medals (Achievements)
2D turn-based strategy game
2D isometric game
2D map editor
2D mission-based shoot 'em up
2D Santa game
SDL 1 tutorials (outdated)

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The Legend of Edgar 1.37
Mon, 1st January 2024

SDL2 Santa game tutorial 🎅
Thu, 23rd November 2023

SDL2 Shooter 3 tutorial
Wed, 15th February 2023

The Legend of Edgar 1.36
Sun, 1st January 2023

SDL2 map editor tutorial [UPDATED]
Sat, 10th September 2022

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The Honour of the Knights (First Edition) (The Battle for the Solar System)

When starfighter pilot Simon Dodds is enrolled in a top secret military project, he and his wingmates begin to suspect that there is a lot more to the theft of a legendary battleship and an Imperial nation's civil war than either the Confederation Stellar Navy or the government are willing to let on.

Click here to learn more and read an extract!

Welcome!

Welcome to Parallel Realities. Here you'll find a number of games that we've worked on over the years, as well as code snippets and other bits and pieces. There are also some post mortems of projects in the form of Making Of ... which some might find interesting to read. SDL2 tutorials can also be found in the tutorial section, to help those who are interested in learning how to create their own games.

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The Legend of Edgar 1.37
Mon, 1st January 2024

The Legend of Edgar has been updated to 1.37

This release contains updates for Dutch, Spanish and Esperanto translations as well as a minor bug fix for the Grub King

Download 1.37 from GitHub

Help translate the game into your native language

Original sound effects and music

edgar  games 
 

SDL2 Santa game tutorial 🎅
Thu, 23rd November 2023

It's that time of the year - Christmas and the holiday seasons are upon us, and so Santa is getting ready for another long night of deliveries on Christmas Eve. It's also time for a new game tutorial!

This new tutorial will guide the reader through how to make a game based around the concept of Santa Claus delivering gifts to good children (and a lump of coal to the naughty ones!). This is a short, simple game, that sees the player take on the role of santa in an endless side scrolling adventure, with the goal of dropping gifts down chimneys.

This tutorial contains 15 parts and can be found on the tutorials page, or by following the link below:

SDL2 Santa tutorial

This tutorial set is part of the SDL2 tutorials bundle, so you will need to purchase that in order to get access to the code. Those who already bought the tutorial set will be able to download this update at no extra cost.

Binary downloads (for x86 Linux and Windows) for the game itself can also be found on itch.io at the following page:

SDL2 Santa itch.io

 

SDL2 Shooter 3 tutorial
Wed, 15th February 2023

It's time for another tutorial. And this is the ultimate one: SDL2 Shooter 3, the third entry in the SDL2 Shooter tutorial series.

This tutorial set is made up of a massive 31 parts, and shows step-by-step how to create a mission and objective based, non-linear 2D shooter! It can be found on the tutorials page, or by following the link below:

SDL2 Shooter 3 tutorial

The tutorial source code is also available to purchase from itch.io, from the following page:

SDL2 Shooter 3 tutorial on itch.io

The tutorial set is also part of the SDL2 tutorials bundle, so those lucky folk who already own the set will get this new tutorial without having to pay anything more!

Binary downloads (for x86 Linux and Windows) for the game itself can also be found on itch.io at the following page:

SDL2 Shooter 3 itch.io

 

The Legend of Edgar 1.36
Sun, 1st January 2023

The Legend of Edgar has been updated to 1.36

This release contains updates for Polish and Esperanto translations

Download 1.36 from GitHub

Help translate the game into your native language

Original sound effects and music

edgar  games 
 

SDL2 map editor tutorial [UPDATED]
Sat, 10th September 2022

Today sees the release of a new tutorial set! This tutorial walks through how a simple 2D map editor can be created, using SDL2.

This tutorial set is made up of 5 parts, and shows step-by-step how to edit tiles and entities, as well as some misc. bits and pieces. It can be found on the tutorials page, or by following the link below:

SDL2 map editor tutorial

The tutorial source code is also available to purchase from itch.io, from the following page:

SDL2 Map Editor tutorial on itch.io

There are no binary downloads for this tutorial set, as it's mostly a command-line tool. The tutorial set has, as always, been added to the SDL2 tutorials bundle, so those who have already purchased the pack will get it at no extra cost.

Binary downloads (for x86 Linux and Windows) for the game itself can also be found on itch.io at the following page:

SDL2 Map Editor on itch.io

 

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