MonoGame and Game Implementation Topics

MonoGame Documentation

• Root page for documentation on MonoGame framework
• Root page for documentation on writing code in XNA
• Input - input namespace
  • Microsoft docs: summary of user input for XNA/MonoGame link
  • KeyboardState members
  • GamepadState members
  • MouseState members
  • Input example from GameFromScratch.com
• 2D drawing
  • Microsoft doc: drawing a sprite link
  • Microsoft doc: drawing text link
  • Spritebatch members
  • Content pipeline and drawing example from GameFromScratch.com
  • What exactly is a pixel? - Repixel game as an example ; Flash r.i.p.
• Sound
  • Monogame types: Playing a sound once (type: SoundEffect) and Playing a sound looped (type: SoundEffectInstance)
  • System.Media type: Soundplayer
• Misc
  • Contents of the Game class that Game1 inherits
  • Viewport if you want to get/set window dimensions in code
• Additional tutorials listed under Sprint0 page

File I/O options (for level loading and possibly saving)

• The content pipeline can be used to load xml files, but it is somewhat restrictive and therefore not recommended. See here or here if you want examples anyways
• Working with files using .NET objects
  • File I/O in C# (useful for both csv and xml files)
  • Streaming from an XMLReader in C#
• Partial examples of files for input
  • xml example file
  • csv example file

XNA Documentation

• Root page for documentation on XNA framework
• Input - input namespace
  • Keyboard input example
  • KeyboardState members
  • Gamepad input example
  • GamepadState members
• 2D drawing
  • Sprites and text drawing examples
  • Spritebatch members
• Sound
  • Sound playing examples
  • Playing a sound once
  • Playing a sound looped
• Working with files (for level loading and possibly saving)
  • XML files in XNA using ContentLoader
  • More examples of using XML in XNA(link down 2/12/16)
  • Using .NET's XMLReader in C#
  • File I/O in C# (useful for both csv and xml files)

XNA Tutorials

• Microsoft's Easiest XNA demo (step-by-step)
• Platformer tutorials (step-by-step and includes some discussion on code quality and object oriented design)
• RB Whitaker - C#, XNA, and game development tutorials (mostly stand-alone)
• XNA development - 2D tutorials and example games (some stand-alone, some step-by-step)
• Riemer's XNA and DirectX tutorials (step-by-step) [menu on the right side-bar]
• XNA Brick Breaker Tutorial (step-by-step)
• XNA Resources (step-by-step)
• XNA zombie game (video tutorial)
• XNA 101 (video tutorials)

Other 2D Game Development Information and Tutorials

• Programming M.C. Kids - a 2D platformer on the NES
• How to make a 2d Platform Game (in actionscript but has some useful math/algorithm concepts) part 1 - part 2

Distribution and deployment

• Making an installer
• Embedding an XNA program in a webpage
• Porting an XNA game to an Xbox360