This book is for anyone who wants to learn how to write games for Linux. I assume that you know the basics of working with Linux; if you know enough to start X, open a terminal, copy les around, and re up a text editor, you’re good to go.
I also assume that you have a reasonable grasp of the C programming language. Flip through the book and see if you can decipher the syntax of the examples. We’ll go through all of the necessary library calls, so don’t worry if you see a bunch of unfamiliar function names, but you should be able to understand the majority of the actual code.
No prior experience with multimedia programming is assumed, so don’t worry if you’ve never had the perverse pleasure of hacking a graphics register or shoving a pixel into memory. All in good time!
