CppCon 2026

Last year I introduced the SDL3 library which provides a solution for building games and graphical applications on multiple platforms. In this talk, we will continue our journey into SDL3, which newly includes the ability to write shaders within the built-in 2D API. My goal is to get you up and running fast by building out a small game application. Throughout the talk I will show how to build a small 2D framework, discussing design decisions and which C++ features can be used to help organize our code. Attendees will leave this talk ready to build multimedia / game applications and with an understanding on if SDL3 is the right tool for them.