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Now we move on to a topic that people always seem to love, graphics! In the past few chapters/videos I’ve said over and over “don’t worry, we will cover this later”, well… welcome to later. We are primarily going to focus on loading and displaying textures using a SpriteBatch. As you will quickly discover, […]
MonoGame Tutorial: Textures and SpriteBatch Read More
So I decided to take a look at the process of extending the Godot Engine, and to my horror I discovered there is no solution file! UGH… Yeah, you can compile from the command line, but that’s not that pleasant of a development experience to an IDE warrior like myself. I thought I found […]
Godot and Visual Studio Read More
I’ve never really been been much into the various cross platform build tools like SCons or CMake, I just don’t maintain all that much cross platform code, so all the extra initial effort just hasn’t been worth it. Well last night I found myself wanting to edit Godot’s source code, so let me […]
OK this SCons things is kinda cool… Read More
Now we are going to talk about two important concepts in AI development in 2D games, path following and navigation meshes. Path following is exactly what you think it is, you create paths and follow them. This is useful for creating predefined paths in your game. When you are looking for a bit more […]
GODOT ENGINE TUTORIAL PART 11- 2D AI Nav Meshes and Path Following Read More
In this chapter we are going to look closely at the structure of a typical XNA game. By the end you should have a better idea of the life cycle of a typical MonoGame application, from program creation, loading content, the game loop, unloading content and exiting. If you prefer videos to text, […]
MonoGame Tutorial: Creating an Application Read More
This tutorial series covers all aspects of using the open source and cross platform MonoGame framework, the spiritual successor to the XNA game library. We will be covering all facets of game development using MonoGame. This tutorial is available in both text and video tutorial format. Additionally it is available as an e-book for […]
MonoGame Tutorial Series Read More
As mentioned recently, I am in the process of compiling the Godot Game Engine Tutorial Series into an e-book format. Today I just published the 10 chapter, 150 page first draft of the Godot Engine book. It can currently be downloaded by Patreon backers right here. It is currently available in the […]
Game Development using the Godot Engine Book first draft released Read More
Welcome to a brand new series on GameFromScratch.com covering the MonoGame open source game framework. Over the next several chapters we will cover almost every factor of using MonoGame for game development. First we are going to start with a bit of a history lesson and introduction to MonoGame; we’ll talk about where it […]
MonoGame Tutorial: An Introduction and Brief History Read More
This tutorial is a quick guide on getting MonoGame up and running on Windows OS. The process is incredibly straight forward, with two options on how to proceed. First you are going to need a development environment, of which two options are available. Xamarin’s Xamarin Studio or Microsoft’s Visual Studio. If you wish […]
Getting Started with MonoGame on Windows Read More
In this tutorial we are going to look at getting a MonoGame development environment up and running on MacOS, create and run our first MonoGame application and finally take a quick look at the Content Pipeline tool. For those that prefer video, there is a video version of this tutorial available here or […]
Getting Started with MonoGame on MacOS Read More