So whatever happened to the whole PGDCE thing?

[Akira13]

I like Being able to use a single case statement for keyboard or mouse input but I don't believe that is possible with VKs

case vMessage.Input.CombineButton of
  CK_CONTROL or CK_MOUSE1          :begin
                                    end;
  CK_CONTROL or CK_Alt or CK_MOUSE1:begin
                                    end;
  CK_MOUSE2                        :begin
                                     end;
end;

case vMessage.Input.CombineKey of
  CK_Alt or CK_S   :begin
                    end;
  CK_Shift or CK_S :begin
                    end;
end;

also BGRABitmap is one of those reinvented wheels that you so greatly discourage. and kind of a bulky solution just to get a texture into video memory

You can definitely use VKs with case statements. Not sure why you would think otherwise.

procedure TForm1.FormKeyUp(Sender: TObject; var Key: Word; Shift: TShiftState);
begin
  case Key of
    VK_UP:
      ShowMessage('Up!');
    VK_DOWN:
      ShowMessage('Down!');
    VK_LEFT:
      ShowMessage('Left!');
    VK_RIGHT:
      ShowMessage('Right!');
  end;
end;

Also BGRABitmap is not what I would call a "reinvented wheel", nor is it a game engine. It's also written by someone who actually knows what they're doing! I'd much rather use it and be able to handle all major image formats in a single short method than have to write my own thousand-plus line unit with a separate BMP loading routine, PNG loading routine, TGA loading routine, e.t.c.