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What to use instead of XNA?
An in-depth guide to MonoGame, the spiritual successor to XNA and one of the best engines for experienced coders.
How good is MonoGame?
“The best game development framework for C#” MonoGame is easy to pick up and understand. It provides enough features and tools for game development out of the box, without getting in your way like Unity or Unreal. That it’s open source at this point is a huge bonus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Is Microsoft XNA dead?
If you don’t know, XNA is a game development framework made by Microsoft to aid developers in rapidly creating cross platform games. The name stands for: XNA’s Not Acronymed. Writing a game in XNA enables it to run on Windows, XBOX, Windows Phone, and the [now dead] Zune HD.
Is OpenTK dead?
OpenTK, a popular set of OpenGL bindings for . NET languages is currently dead. The original founder walked away from the project and the guy that has been maintaining the project for the last several months posted this message to Github.
Do you need a mono audio file for XNA?
It is very important that your source audio file is in Mono ( as opposed to Stereo ) format if you use Apply3D, or an exception will be thrown. As mentioned earlier, XACT used to be the only option when it came to audio programming in XNA.
What kind of audio files can I use in MonoGame?
Fortunately the content pipeline takes care of a great deal of the complications for us. Simply add your audio files ( mp3, mp4, wma, wav, ogg ) to the content pipeline and it will do the rest of the work for you. As you will see shortly though, it is also possible to load audio files outside of the content pipeline.
How do you play a song in MonoGame?
Our Song can then be played with a call to MediaPlayer.Play (). In this example we wire up a MediaStateChanged event handler that will be called when the song completes, decreasing the volume and playing the song again. This example shows playing sound effects.
How do you mute sound effects in XNA?
If the user hits the spacebar we either mute or set to full volume the global MasterVolume of the SoundEffect class. This will affect all playing sound effects. Sound effects can also be positioned in 3D space easily in XNA.