MonoGame Tutorials

External Tutorials

Beginner

Monkey Tap first game tutorial

Youtube MonoGame PlayList

MonoGame in Visual Studio Tutorial

Microsoft 2d MonoGame tutorial

Creating a 2d bricks game

MonoGame on Pluralsight (Sign up for a free trial)

monogame-basics-series

Moderate

Adventure game tutorial series

Youtube Tutorial Series

XNA YouTube tutorials from same source as above

Degree level MonoGame

monogame-advanced-series

Tutorial Set 1

You should start by creating a new project, remember to give it a suitable name and test it runs before you start.

Creating A Player

Creating An Instance of Your Player

Adding and Processing Player Input

Mouse or touch control Input

Animate the Player

Using SpriteFont

Collision Detection

Rectangle Bounds Collision

Basic Per Pixel Collision

Advanced Per Pixel Collision

RPG Tutorial Series

Tutorial 1 – Map Generation

Tutorial 2 – Field-of-View Calculation

Tutorial 3 – Exploring the Map

Tutorial 4 – Pathfinding

Tutorial 5 – 2D Camera Setup

Tutorial 6 – Combat

Game Resources

MonoGame.Extended

MonoGame.Extended GitHub, you must have MonoGame installed first:

Add functions to MonoGame - including Tiled maps

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:

1. MonoGame.Extended.Content.Pipeline
2. MonoGame.Extended.Tiled
3. MonoGame.Extended.Graphics

MonoGame.Extended Resources:

MonoGame.Extended Forum

MonoGame.Extended Wiki

Tiled

Tiled Website and Download:

Tiled Map Editor

Tutorials for using Tiled:

Offical Tiled Tutorials

Tiled Basics

Tiled Youtube Playlist Series

Written Version of Above Tutorials

Game Art

Tileset & game art:

Open Game Art

Related Skills

Generating and using XNB files