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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 […]
Installing XNA Tools Like XACT without Visual Studio 2010 Read More
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
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
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