akb825 Wrote:For simple games, though, C should be fine.

Ack! Stop! That's the second or third time in this thread I've seen that comment. Just as a reminder, id used C for all of their engines up until just recently with Doom III. If C is good enough for John Carmack to get all the way to Quake3, it's good enough for... well, any game you can imagine. Then there's always the next whining complaint, "but I don't know how to program C in an object oriented fashion". Hint: Probably the biggest concept that gets missed by many inexperienced C programmers is the technique of encapsulating function pointers in their structs. Whammo! You have an object. It's magic! Do a google on object oriented C if you need more ideas. [end rant]

To back up what aarku and Lurie mentioned, SDL or GLUT would be a fine place to start from scratch if you already know C.