Difficulty Deciding

[lolikilu14]

I have enough money to buy a book that ill need know but I cant decide, I want to make a 2d game that will eventually be commercial but I dont know if I should get SFML game development or Beginning game programing using directx. There are a good amount of books using directx and I am assuming most commercial 2d games use it but I cant decide. Suggestions?

[Avilius]

Well DirectX would be pretty much overkill for that. It'd be best to just get the SFML book.

[lolikilu14]

Just wondering how would it be overkill? Almost all the 2d development books I have seen for C++ use it.

[lolikilu14]

And a little info on the game its not going to be small, I mean maybe at first but I plan to hav the updating scheme of starbound and minecraft, just get bigger over time

[Avilius]

It's just really unnecessary. It's better to just use an abstraction library or a Game Engine and build your game there. It saves you from having to reinvent the wheel.

Plus, it's pretty much a recompile to let it run on other platforms (greatly eases porting).

[lolikilu14]

ok thanks for the advice, I understand what your saying im ordering SFML game development off of amazon now.