Have had a hell of a time getting back into programming. Couldn't get any IDE or graphics library to work. Finally I have Code Blocks working, and am using the Windows API as my library. Am I way off base? It looks like everyone is using Unity.
I'm using bitmaps for graphics and BitBlt to draw them, ANDing with a black background to cut a hole in my background, then ORing with a white background to draw a character and animate it.