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+# Connect Four
+
+A little Connect Four in C, built as a first go at driving SDL2 directly — window setup, loading BMP textures, mouse and keyboard events, a game loop that redraws every frame.
+
+Two players share a mouse and keyboard: click a column to drop a disc, and a highlight bar follows the cursor across the top row so you can see which column you're about to drop into.
+
+There's no actual four-in-a-row check anywhere in the code. Instead, whoever gets four in a row just presses a key to claim the win themselves, which bumps their score and starts a new round. Honor system instead of a win-condition scanner.
+
+## Controls
+
+- Click a column to drop a disc
+- `R` — red claims a win
+- `Y` — yellow claims a win
+
+## Building
+
+Needs SDL2 and SDL2_ttf.
+
+```sh
+make
+./connect_four
+```
+
+## License
+
+GPLv3 — see `LICENSE`.