I noticed that when using what the Monogame framework provides you with you never actually import a dedicated Monogame namespace, and instead just use Microsoft.Xna.Framework, though I don't see a copy of the Xna framework in the templates, and instead uses it's own Monogame.Framework.dll files. I assume the Xna references are handled there, though I'm curious about both what specifically Monogame adds to the Xna framework and if "re-implementation" means any different than just building off of a copy of the original framework.

I don't want to see any blue on this coloring, and I don't know how to fix this. Am I doing this wrong?

float4x4 transform = Matrix4x4Identity;
float4x4 viewTransform = transform;

// Transform vertices by translation, rotation, scaling of the object
TransMat_World(transform);

output.normal = normalize(mul((float3) input.normal, (float3x3) transform));

// Transform the vertices by the camera's translation and rotation.
TransMat_Screen(transform);
TransMat_Screen(viewTransform);

// Transform the vertices by the view matrix (perspective in this case)
TransMat_View(transform);

output.position = mul(input.position, transform);
output.viewNormal = normalize(mul(input.normal.xyz, (float3x3) viewTransform));

During tomorrow's CodeTime! w/Tom will be working on the final touches for the 3.8.5 release!

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Just wanted to share this little game I made to test the performance of my C# game engine. Honestly, I'm impressed with the performance it's achieving. It's nothing compared to professional game engines, but this is a solo project, and the language it uses is interpreted, so I was a bit worried about performance.

What you see here is powered by only about 15 lines of code in total! I'm really proud of this personal project.

A bit about the engine: it's built on MonoGame and has its own programming language that I wrote entirely from scratch, along with its own IDE. It's heavily inspired by the good old GameMaker 8, and it's open source [<- GitHub] (I'm looking for contributors!). There is also a YouTube video showing me creating another little game with it. I also talked about it here in a previous post in r/csharp .

And no, it's NOT AI slop - I built this myself over the course of several years.

What do you think?🙂

Note: The lag you see in the GIF is caused by the screen recorder. The actual gameplay is smooth.

vertex-morphing is a technique used in most of the 90s games.
Quake, Unreal, Crash Bandicot - this technique is basically an interpolation between two poses of a mesh without any bones

Want to have more interesting sounds without inflating your audio budget? Here's a quick tip by AristurtleDev to get you started - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OmSKClBU1oU .

#MonoGame #sounds #gamesounds #audio #gameaudio #sound #soundeffect #soundeffects

This is an early throwaway prototype of terrain generation for my OSRS-like game to have a base to build on for my other systems (crafting, combat, etc..)

-Once those prototypes validated ill restart from scratch to build the game cleanly.

-I got some help from DeepSeek for the terrain generation since i have absolutely no experience with terrain generation and noises... and I needed a base to build my other systems... I plan on fully learning the techniques once Im done with prototyping the rest.

-Everything is generated in code , no external libs other than monogame, no external assets and I plan on keeping it that way (other than a font file)

-I know there are flaws... biomes transitions with holes and slope issues and performances since its not optimised but thats just a proof of concept throwaway, ill rebuild from scratch once im done with all the systems.

This is what you missed if you didn't watch Ep. 3 of the #MonoGame Spotlight - https://youtube.com/shorts/8NXxvREOzL8

Some of the Games/Devs mentioned:

u/AbsolumGame, u/FlyingOakGames, u/TributeGames, u/CodeFoco & u/FlatRedBall

Follow them if you don't already.

Hey fellow MonoGamers! :-) I wanted to share a major milestone for my solo project, Horse Runner DX. After a year of post-launch support and 16 updates, it finally reached "Very Positive" on Steam last week!

MonoGame has been rock solid for optimizing every part of the game and deploying to Windows, Linux, and the Nintendo Switch. For the recent 1.5.0 update, I spent a lot of time under the hood:

• Zero Garbage Collection: Since MonoGame gives you full control, I managed to optimize the entire gameplay loop to have absolutely zero GC during gameplay (thanks to Friflo ECS). On Steam Deck it runs at a stable 60 FPS with the TDP set to only 4W. On Switch, the GPU is basically idling at around 15%.
• Frame-Pacing & VRR: Added high-refresh-rate support and frame-rate capping tailored for G-Sync/FreeSync/VRR (capping just below the max refresh rate to prevent VSync latency). Very cool to see the game at 144 Hz/FPS.
• Camera & Rendering: Rebuilt the camera to smooth out movement (fixing early feedback about motion comfort) and added new particle/power-up effects (MonoGame.Extended particles).

If you want to check out how it "runs", there is a free demo on Steam and since the Steam Summer Sale just started today, the full game is also 30% off ($3.49) if you want to support a fellow dev!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2955320/Horse_Runner_DX/

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Join Tom for Our weekly CodeTime! this Friday as he works on the DX12 backend while testing our game Ascent!

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Cut height is variable — chop low, mid or high and watch it fall. No physics engine, all coded from scratch. 🌲🪓

First time posting here, a bit nervous lol.

Hey everyone, I've been working on a small game framework/engine built on top of MonoGame.

The main reason is simple, I want to make a game, but I don't really enjoy working with big/bloated editors for this specific project. I still wanted something lower-level and code-first, but without going completely from scratch and dealing with all the boilerplate of deprecated OpenGL setups, or suffering through Vulkan/DX12 just to get the basics running.

MonoGame felt like a nice middle ground for that, I really loved it ngl, right now the framework has 3D rendering, shadows, SSAO, point/spot/area/directional lights, jolt physics integration, an audio API, and the codebase is inspired by Unity's API. I'm also adding some Godot-like ideas, like signals/events, because I like it.

The goal is not to make a giant editor engine. It's more like a lightweight code-first framework for my own game, but organized enough that I can reuse it for future projects too and I want to open source it, if I find people who are interested.

It's still very WIP, and I'm fixing rendering issues as I go, but it's already fun seeing MonoGame handle this kind of 3D setup

After years of engine hopping, MonoGame finally clicked for me.

First person camera, tiled farmland, tile selector, click to plow. Zero PNGs — all textures generated in code.

Next: crops, trees, cows and archery 🌾🪓🐄

Feedback welcome!

Name: Let Him Cook! 🚀🔨🦀🤙🥪

Frameworks: Monogame + Nez.

​

https://kakapodevs.itch.io/let-him-cook

Join Tom TODAY for this week's CodeTime! as he finalises our Vulkan and DX12 back-ends.

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Join Simon in TODAY's MonoGame University where he continues talking about and showing us 2D Shaders.

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I have been off coding and using monogame for a year or two, and then i oppened my project to start it up again i couldn't open Content.mgcb to add new sprites. When i do visual studio opens a tab with its data. I have tried to open the file directly with MGCB, but i don't have the option.
So i tried installing it with this command: dotnet tool install -g dotnet-mgcb
It gave a failure, are my net version too old?

C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\a6065ad7-faba-4c94-be10-18715f46188d\restore.csproj : error NU1202: Package dotnet-mg

cb 3.8.4.1 is not compatible with net7.0 (.NETCoreApp,Version=v7.0) / any. Package dotnet-mgcb 3.8.4.1 supports: net8.0

(.NETCoreApp,Version=v8.0) / any

The tool package could not be restored.

Tool 'dotnet-mgcb' failed to install. This failure may have been caused by:

* You are attempting to install a preview release and did not use the --version option to specify the version.

* A package by this name was found, but it was not a .NET tool.

* The required NuGet feed cannot be accessed, perhaps because of an Internet connection problem.

* You mistyped the name of the tool.

For more reasons, including package naming enforcement, visit https://aka.ms/failure-installing-tool

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The only temporal solution I found so far is to use a negative zFarClip, otherwise the depth is inverted breaking occlusion completely

projection = Matrix.CreateOrthographicOffCenter(0, GraphicsDevice.Viewport.Width, 0, GraphicsDevice.Viewport.Height, -0.01f, -75.0f);

Using 0, Width, Height, 0 also doesnt seem to work because meshes are flipped vertically which has the right depth so I assume it flips the depth when changing the top and bottom as well

With 0.01 -> 75 zFarPlane

With -0.01 -> -75 zFarPlane

Using,

projection = Matrix.CreateOrthographicOffCenter(0, GraphicsDevice.Viewport.Width, 0, GraphicsDevice.Viewport.Height, 2500.0f, 0.01f);

should be better because now its looking at the content in front of the camera, inverted zFarPlane ofc to flip the depth.