MonoGame Tutorials

MonoGame is a game creation framework which uses C#, so for help on C# you can use the topics on THIS page.

Basic Skills

Creating A Project

Using SpriteFont

Drawing Textures

Drawing Shapes

Keyboard Input

Mouse or touch control Input

Video Playback

Animation

Game states

Creating A Player

Creating An Instance of Your Player

Adding and Processing Player Input

Using Timers

Collision Detection

Rectangle Bounds Collision

Basic Per Pixel Collision

Using Tiled Maps

Squared.Tiled

setup and map example

drawing a layer

Get tile texture from map

Player Bounds

TiledSharp

using a tmx map in monogame

TiledCS

Using TiledCS

Game UI

GeonBit

GeonBit example

Ruminate

Ruminate Example

Myra

Myra Example

Steropes

Steropes Example

Steropes Map Widget

SimpleText UI Example

SimpleText UI Example

Special Effects

Screen Shake

Parallax Scrolling

Explosions

Networked / Multiplayer

LiteNetLib

Setup LiteNetLib

Example LiteNetLib

RPG LiteNetLib

Lidgren.Network

Lidgren.Network

Save Game / Check Points

Creating a game save

Related Skills

Generating and using XNB files

Full Tutorials

Bricks

Dino

Monkey Tap

Simple Tower

Simple RPG

Simple Platform

Simple Racer

Simple Beat Em Up

External Resources

External Resources