.NET 8, meet MonoGame
The journey has begun and the road to building .NET 8 based games has begun.
Tag: game development
MonoGame on the Web, No Really!
By default, MonoGame does not, or cannot publish to WebGL/The Web, but thanks to NKast, there is a Fork of MonoGame that can! Read on for details.
GameDev jamming with MonoGame
GameDev jams are the best way to throw yourself into the deep end and try things you never thought possible, like learning a new framework/engine. Here is a...
MonoGame, the order of things!
Every engine, framework and operation has a specific order to their events. This post outlines the execution order for MonoGame projects.
Going cross-platform with MonoGame
Building for one platform is great, but why not maximise your reach and potential sales with more using the SAME code!
MonoGame, meet VSCode
The fastest way to get started with MonoGame is to install VSCode and from there install the tools, everything in one place!.
MonoGame roundup for 2023
Setting the record straight on MonoGame, past, present and more importantly, its future.
Getting Started with MonoGame using Visual Studio
MonoGame (for those of you not yet aware) is a Game Building Framework / API born from the ashes that was the Microsoft XNA Framework that provides a very ea...
Learning Windows 8 Game Development - A Review
The game development landscape, especially for Indies is certainly changing. With the recent XBOXOne and PS4 console releases show that skills like C++ are ...
Monster set of FREE resources for game design - Updated 2014-07
Need to update this list and move it to a better place, such as github
ReCap - The XNA 2D 'from the ground up' tutorial series
Look at the size of that thing
The long road back
Since I am a glutton for punishment, before and shortly after working on the WP7 app for work, I got involved with a talented developer in Auz called Chris H...
Pictures, barcodes and effects - oh my
Now this was an unexpected surprise since I should still be wo deep rehearsing for my webcast next week (already?), but I’ll get back to that.
Behaviour - Lesson 8
Welcome to the conclusion of the original DigiPen tutorial, although fear not, this wont be the end of the series as we still have lots more to do.
Game Music and Sound Effects - Lesson 7
Finally we get something more than just looking at a quite screen blinking images on and off. For this section we look to excite our ears and bring in the s...
Intermission #10 - (Part 2) lets tax the brain
Apologies, had to split the post do to some technical issues on teh XNA-UK site, were working hard to resolve that but fo rnow, here is the continuation of t...
Intermission #10 - lets tax the brain
2in the last intermission before getting back to the series we’re going to stay with the windows phone for now (the next part of the tutorial will start on t...
Intermission #9 - Back to the future (Phone 7)
Marty you gotta see this…. (whoops, back to the tutorial)
Intermission #8 - What has gone wrong?
The title reflects that odd moment when you have added some new content to your project, you have been meticulous and double checked everything, it should be...
Minor Distractions
Well it seems this week is full of surprises.
Breakpoint - Alternate Particle solutions
I am always on the look out for new ideas and ways forward and what we have implemented so far is only one solution to implementing particle effects.
Intermission #7 / 2 - Bring on the Fire
2D,XNA,Game DevelopmentIn the last post we set the groundwork with the particle system itself. Now we can move on to making use of this and adding / customi...
Intermission #7 - Resource pools and Particles
I was going to do this as two separate articles, but after a refresh trawl at what is already our there and available I have decided to put them together. W...
Intermission #6/2 - Analogue Controls
Following on from the last post I will quickly cover updating our input framework to allow for analogue controls such as Gamepad stick and triggers.
Intermission #6 - More meat on the bone
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Intermission #5 - Windows Phone controls
In the first of a few intermissions to the tutorial series, we will add some control to our windows phone project. With the current state of the development...
Player Control of Sprites - Lesson 6
Lesson 6 is here from the Original DigiPen series tutorial now updated with XNA. This section is pretty much untouched apart from the updated code. I will ...
Transformation and collision of Sprites - Lesson 5
Finally some action!!. There is not much going on in our game at the moment, one lone ship flying in a straight line over the skies of some lone planet, not...
Intermission #4 - Moving to Windows Phone
No need to guess what this little section is about. Games on Windows Phone 7.
Intermission #3 - updating to allow for changeable resolution
One problem with the original code from DigiPen (which the author freely admitted to) was that it was fixed to a resolution of 640 x 480 (640 pixels wide by ...
Intermission #2 - Code Changes
Since we are moving from single images stored as frames looped together to a single image with a picking rectangle, we need to update the framework.
Intermission #2 - Spritesheets (and Clean-up)
(coming to you from 45,000 feet 🙂 on yet another flight to India with work, sound glamorous, but when you are leaving behind the wife, kids and 2 week old pu...
Game Implementation part two
Game Implementation Part one
As we get into the actual coding part of this tutorial, I thought I would at least show an image of what we are DigiPen was aiming for in this game.
Game Design - Engine Basics
The DigiPen tutorial was originally delivered on top of a basic game engine written for the tutorial series. Now the specifics of the engine were discussed ...
Intermission #1 - Welcome to XNA
Right, before hitting the ground running with the rest of the DigiPen tutorial, you first need to know about this thing called XNA that we will be developing...
C# Programming Overview continued - Miscellaneous for XNA
Here is the section for the specific updates for XNA, new improvements in .NET 3.5 and what is coming up for .NET 4.0. This refreshes the previous post from...
Game Web Cast Project: Game Components
This section is pretty much as-is from the original Digipen webcast. View the original video for the webcast here on codeplex.
C# Programming Overview continued - Miscellaneous
This section of the tutorial is provided as is from the original Digipen tutorial, I will post a supplement to this post later which will cover the updates f...
C# Programming Overview continued - Structures
C# Programming Overview continued - Arrays
1. Introduction
C# Programming Overview continued - Classes
C# Programming Overview continued - Flow Control
**Flow control is an essential part of any programming language, it allows us to make decisions and change the direction our program takes. **
C# Programming Overview continued - Functions
Functions are at the core of the C# programming language, they define jobs to do in code, setting out a group of instructions to perform an action or resolve...
C# Programming Overview continued - Expressions, Statements & Operators
This section is mainly for reference, you will refer to this quite regularly in the beginning.
C# Programming Overview continued - Types
1. Value Types
C# Programming Overview continued - Variables
1. Introduction
C# Programming Overview (2)
Continued from previous post
C# Programming Overview
1. Introduction
Session 1 continued - Game Development Introductions
So if you’re new to game development, welcome to a whole new world of fun where the only limit is your imagination (skills can be learned, creativity must be...
XNA 2D from the ground up
Introduction:
Game engine source now available for Free
Seems a few guys now are really dishing it out to the public and rolling out their sweat ‘n’ guts and slitting their writs for the community.
I must have eaten some really hot porridge this morning
2 Posts in one week, what must I be thinking, ?? anyway
Loads of FREE stuff
Over on Gamedev the Four Elements V competition has just ended, a good few entrant there, head over and have a look.
50 Books For Everyone In the Game Industry
I came across several lists in my past about what book to read, where to go N Such, but over at Next-Gen, they have compiled a list as a consensus from some ...
Game Programming Wiki - GPWiki
No idea how I missed this one but here it is a full Wiki wholly for the Game development arena, easy to browse and choc full of useful info for the budding g...