MonoGame Tutorials
External Tutorials
Beginner
Monkey Tap first game tutorial
MonoGame in Visual Studio Tutorial
Microsoft 2d MonoGame tutorial
MonoGame on Pluralsight (Sign up for a free trial)
XNA YouTube tutorials from same source as above
Moderate
Adventure game tutorial series
Different type of Game
Tower Defence
Tutorial 1 : Drawing the level.
Tutorial 2 : Create a Sprite base class.
Tutorial 3 : Creating the Enemy class.
Tutorial 4 : Adding way-points and enemy movement.
Tutorial 5 : Making a base Tower class.
Tutorial 6 : Tower placement and management.
Tutorial 7 : Extending the tower class and adding projectiles.
Tutorial 8 : Adding a wave of enemies.
Tutorial 9 : Adding multiple waves
Tutorial 10 : Creating the GUI (Part 1)
Tutorial 11 : Creating the GUI (Part 2)
Tutorial 12 : Adding a New Tower Type
Tutorial 13 : Adding the Slow Tower
Tutorial 14 : Polishing the Game
Tutorial 14.5 : Drag and Drop Towers
Pathfinding Tutorials :
A* Pathfinding Tutorial : Part 1
A* Pathfinding Tutorial : Part 2
A* Pathfinding Tutorial : Part 3
Platformer
XNA Platformer Made Easy (YouTube)
RPG
MonoGame RPG Made Easy (YouTube)
Tutorial Series
Tutorial 2 – Field-of-View Calculation
Tutorial 3 – Exploring the Map
TRC Tutorials
Basic Skills
You should start by creating a new project, remember to give it a suitable name and test it runs before you start.
Creating An Instance of Your Player
Adding and Processing Player Input
Collision Detection
Squared.Tiled Maps
TiledSharp Maps
Related Skills
Generating and using XNB files
Game Resources
Tiled
Tiled Website and Download
Tutorials for using Tiled
Written Version of Above Tutorials
Game Art
Home Page
MonoGame.Extended
Install Method 1
MonoGame.Extended GitHub, you must have MonoGame installed first, get it from here:
Add functions to MonoGame - including Tiled maps
Install Method 2
Alternatively, open your game project and click the project tab and select "Manage NuGet Packages". Within the NuGet package manager search for MonoGame.Extended, you will need to install this plus also:
- MonoGame.Extended.Content.Pipeline
- MonoGame.Extended.Tiled
- MonoGame.Extended.Graphics
These may also require some setup, read the readme.txt files when the new packages are installed.