Wednesday 18 February 2015

Introduction To Monogame



In 2012, Microsoft announced Windows 8, and due to it's lack of support to XNA, which is Microsoft's famous gaming platform, it dispointed the developers community but that is not the end. The Porject Monogame arised as replacement for XNA although it's unofficial product.
Monogame is free software tool which is used by the game develpers to make their Windows and Windows Phone game on the other systems. As it's moto says 'Write Once Play Everywhere'. you can design IOS Apps for Apple or Google's Android or Sony's playstation. It seems very good platform for the game developers. Monogame was launched in 2009 by Jose Antonio and it's truely opensource product. it's source code also available on CodePlex. Monogame fully implements XNA 4(Microsoft Offical API which is not supported by Windows Store). Monogame have the ability of to integerate with Microsoft Visual Studio.The Graphics ability of the monogame came from the famous game Engine OpenGL which is used in C++.

What tools are required to develop games with Monogame?
developing game with MonoGame is fairly easy task. you need following tools to develop famous indie game using the monogame

  • Microsoft's Visual Studio 2012 or higher
  • Monogame 


Yes, that's all enough to develop games with the monogame

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