holy ****! the first screenshot! and it sucks bum!

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/4738/6692144114461195fb4.gif

Why the **** am I showing you a picture of an empty frame? Well, that’s actually an empty demo map, with empty space in the middle and stone walls surrounded the outside. It was mainly a test to see if SDL_TTF was going to serve my purposes, and it seems to be fine! I might hunt around for a better font and try to optimize that a little bit, but it works and that’s good enough for me right now.

and a snippet of the displaying code to show you guys the bull**** programmers have to deal with:

	for (x = 0; x < MAXCOLUMNS; x++){
		for (y = 0; y < MAXROWS; y++){
			if (currentmap.mapgrid[x][y]->tile_type == WALL){
				c = "#";
			}
			else {
				c = " ";
			}
			offset.x = x * TILEWIDTH;
			offset.y = y * fontheight + fontheight * 2;
			character = TTF_RenderText_Shaded(font, c, color, bgcolor);
			
			if (character == NULL){
				return 5;
			}
			SDL_BlitSurface(character, NULL, screen, &offset);
		}
	}
	SDL_FreeSurface(character);
	SDL_Flip(screen);