Making a game in 48 hours with c++ and opengl - Ludum Dare 49

Опубликовано: 07 Май 2026
на канале: Biped Potato
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Video Contents
0:00 - Intro
0:34 - Explanation
0:42 - Controls
1:06 - Basic Movement
3:00 - Creating A Particle System!
4:30 - Simple Physics
4:42 - Unstable Mechanic!
5:36 - Feature Rush!
6:30 - Broken!
6:46 - SUBSCRIBE!
6:55 - Outro

I made a game for Ludum Dare 49 in 2 days using my own custom c++ and opengl game engine!

Join my discord!:
  / discord  

The game can be found Here:
LdJam Page:https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/4...
Itch Page:https://biped-potato.itch.io/unstaballz

Helpful resources i used for learning opengl:

The Cherno:    / thechernoproject  
Cherno's tutorials and videos were very helpful i especially enjoyed his batch rendering series which was really well explained.

Libraries:

Opengl: https://www.opengl.org/
opengl the graphics api i use for my engine.

SDL2: https://www.libsdl.org/
sdl2 the windowing and input library i use for my engine.

DearImgui: https://github.com/ocornut/imgui
dearimgui the GUI lib i use for my engine.

Freetype: https://www.freetype.org/
freetype the font library i use for my engine

Software used:
Microsoft visual studio 2019:
Adobe premiere pro: https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/
Inkscape: https://inkscape.org/
OBS studio: https://obsproject.com/
Audacity: https://www.audacityteam.org/

Music used:
https://uppbeat.io/browse/artist/moun...

If you liked this video here are some youtubers who i like to watch and am inspired by:

Dani:    / danidev  
Makes entertaining and fun videos is making an fps called karlson!

Cherno:    / thechernoproject  
Really good videos and tutorials about graphics programming mostly.

PolyMars:    / polymars  
Enjoys learning lots of frameworks which is his main focus.

Barji:    / @barj  
Has a lot of interesting gamedev challenges on his youtube.