So you have a game, and you want to get regular builds for people to test. Now you can do a build yourself , but you’re not a philistine are you? You want to use Continuous Integration (CI). What is Continuous Integration If you don’t know, CI is where a […]
One of the issues MonoGame Mac (and Linux) developers face is not being able to build shaders. Getting a good shader HLSL compiler to work on a non Windows platform is tricky. Work is under way to get this done but it will take some time to get right. That leaves […]
In the past it might seem that Windows users of MonoGame get all the cool stuff, and Mac / Linux users are left out in the cold. To be honest for a while that was true, but the great news is that more recently that has begun to change. On […]
Xamarin announced something awesome yesterday. Because we love seeing indie games succeed, Xamarin wants to support indie game developers all over the world in bringing their games to billions of mobile gamers. We want every indie game developer to enjoy the power of C# and Visual Studio, so we have an […]
The MonoGame team have been putting allot of effort into a cross platform content pipeline, but given that for the most part we support loading native assets like .png, .mp3, .wav why bother? Well it all boils down to a couple of words.. performance, efficiency. Lets look at an example, […]
So in one of my previous blog posts we covered how to scale your game for multiple screen resolutions using the matrix parameter in the SpriteBatch. Like all good problems that was just one solution or many, and since then things have moved on a bit. While that technique is […]
Its finally done, the Pipeline tool is now working on OSX (and Linux). Over the christmas break I worked with another MonoGame contributor (@cra0zy) to finish off the Tool and build the Mac OS Installer. The app itself behaves like the one on Windows so we have a fairly consistent […]
Some of you might have heard that MonoGame now has its own content pipeline tooling, and it works! As a result the need to install the XNA 4.0 SDK is no longer required, unless you want to target Xbox 360 of course. For those of you looking for documentation on […]
So as you may have noticed I’ve been playing about allot with OpenGL and android recently and I started to see some very weird behaviour. The normal activity life cycle states that when the lock screen is enabled, the activity will be Paused, then Stopped. This seemed to be the behaviour […]
In my previous post we looked at how to modify the ScreenManager class to support multiple resolutions. This works fine but what we also need is a way to scale the inputs from the Mouse or TouchScreen so that they operate at the same virtual resolution as the game does. We […]