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How are you going to handle the two different players controls?

SDL2 makes it easy.

Basically, events from the keyboard and joystick are polled for input
and player 1is limited to the keyboard and other players are limited to separate gamepads.

I need to change some code to get joystick to work properly for a system originally intended for keyboard only.

Edit:
I am basically stuck on this right now. Event polling doesn't work too well.
One player moving stops another player's movement.

Edit 2:
I got the event handling working. Basically I gave each player a separate input event stack and pushed all keyboard events to player 1 event stack
and all joystick 1 events to player 2 event stack.

Edit 3:
I am actually using a queue container not a stack since the first event in should be the first event processed and removed.

I finally got the game working well for 2 players.

This multiplayer game addition is opening up even more innovative gameplay possibilities than I thought it would.

I decided that I am going to make the multiplayer mode a free-form competitive / cooperative Zelda inspired game.

I plan to have each mini dungeon in the labyrinth serve the purpose of giving 1 player an item or power-up.

I also plan to put in a choice at the end of the final boss fight in which players must choose between winning the game as a
team or having 1 player win the game.
If just 1 player disagrees with winning the game as a team, then, the players must compete with each other to win the game.

I just released Door To Life version 0.3.

Multiplayer has been implemented successfully.
The general area for the golden tile location is shown on the submap which has proven to be a good game design decision.
It makes the game immediately interesting by showing something that the player can be curious about and explore.

It takes a few minutes to play the game now, but occasionally the labyrinth gets challenging to solve
because the exit is blocked on 3 sides.

Edit:
Link
https://goatrus.itch.io/door-to-life