The slides from my lightning talk on NDC 2013. It is a quick overview of what MonoGame is and how to get started using it. Somehow the fonts are wrong, but the content is still there... :-)

1. Cross platform
mobile gaming with
MonoGame

2. In 10 minutes!
• What is MonoGame?
• What can it do?
• How?
• Some examples!
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3. Me
• Rune Andreas Grimstad
• Work at Capgemini, Trondheim
• Focus on .Net
• Programming since I was 8 years
old
• Love computer games!
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4. MonoGame is
open source, cross-platform,
XNA

5. With MonoGame
you can
Write 2D-games
or 3D-games
that runs anywhere

6. MonoGame runs
everywhere
Windows, Mac, Linux
iOS, Android, Windows Phone,
WinRT
Raspberry Pi, Playstation
Vita

7. Getting started
... starting is easy

8. You need Visual Studio
• You need Visual Studio to compile
content
• The WP7 SDK or XNA Game Studio 4
• Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android
• Win8 and the WP8 and WinRT SDKs
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9. And some knowledge
• Based on XNA so there are many
tutorials
• Many frameworks for various game
types
• You will need to know some maths
– Vectors
– Matrices
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10. Using MonoGame
The shortest how-to ever

11. The game loop
• Initialize – start here
• LoadContent – runs once
• Main game loop – runs forever
– Update, game logic, AI, handle input
– Draw, graphics here
• UnloadContent – if you need it
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12. Some tips
• Focus on one platform first
– Then re-use the code after it is done
• Use abstractions for services
– Gps
– Accelerometer
– Camera
– Xamarin.Mobile can help
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13. Some tips
• Think performance
– Try to re-use objects instead of
creating new ones
– Avoid reflection!
– Avoid LINQ
– Cache and pre-calculate what you can
• Don’t forget you good coding
practices
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14. The final challenge
Finishing the game!

15. Some examples
What MonoGame can do

16. Bastion
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• XNA on Xbox, MonoGame on Mac and
Linux

17. Fez
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• XNA on Xbox, MonoGame on Windows

18. Skulls of the Shogun
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• XNA on Xbox, MonoGame on Win8/RT,
WP8

19. Want to know more?
• Just ask!
– @runegri on twitter
– rag@rag.no
• I’m here for the rest of the
conference
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20. Some resources
• The MonoGame website:
– monogame.net
• MonoGame sources:
– github.com/mono/MonoGame/
• XNA tutorials
– Just google for them :-)
@runegri NDC 2013 @runegri

21. Thanks to
• Fonts from Font Squirrel
– www.fontsquirrel.com
• Images from stock.xchng
– sxc.hu/
• MonoGame logo
– Monogame.net
• Screenshots from the games
– supergiantgames.com
– fezgame.com
– skullsoftheshogun.com
@runegri NDC 2013 @runegri