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FlatRedBall is an open source C# based game engine with development dating back to 2005. It was originally built to run on-top of Managed Direct X, then was ported to XNA and when XNA was depreciated, it was again ported to run on top of the MonoGame framework. FlatRedBall provides …
MonoGame, the spiritual successor to Microsoft’s XNA game framework, just released MonoGame 3.8 after more than a year in development. Major new features of MonoGame including .NET core support, NuGet installation and more. Details of the release from the MonoGame What’s New post: We now support .NET Core in addition …
FNA is an open source project making it easy to port and maintain XNA based games to several different platforms. FNA has been used to port a huge number of indie games including the likes of Celeste, Bastion, Axiom Verge, FEZ, Owlboy, Rogue Legacy and more. The goal of FNA is described as:Our goal is […]
In this chapter we start looking at 3D game development using MonoGame. Previously I called XNA a low level code focused engine and you are about to understand why. If you come from a higher level game engine like Unity or even LibGDX you are about to be in for a shock. Things you […]
In this chapter we are going to look at using audio in XNA. Originally XNA supported one way of playing audio, using XACT (Cross Platform Audio Creation Tool ). Since the initial release they added a much simplified API. We will be taking a look at both processes. There is an HD video […]
In this chapter we are going to explore handling input from the keyboard, mouse and gamepad in your MonoGame game. XNA/MonoGame also have support for mobile specific input such as motion and touch screens, we will cover theses topics in a later topic. There is an HD video of this chapter available here. […]
I recently ran into a bit of a challenge and the work around wasn’t entirely obvious so I’ve decided to share the process here. The XNA Game Studio install includes a couple of tools, the XACT audio tool being specifically what I was after. Unfortunately to install XNA you need to first have Visual […]
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, […]
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, […]
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 […]
