Beginning MonoGame

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I’ve had a few folks ask me for a good “Getting Started” tutorial for MonoGame over the last year and I’ve done a few talks on the subject, but hadn’t really had an opportunity to put anything together until now.

Instead of writing some massive thing that I never finish, I’m going to keep these posts relatively short, and focus on individual aspects of getting up and running with MonoGame, dissecting the starter project, and then move into cool things you can do.

As I create new pieces, I’ll update this post with links to them, and hopefully keep a running thread to tie them all together. Also, if I mention covering something later, I’ll try to add a bullet for it here so I remember to come back and add it.

Let’s see where it goes, and feel free to suggest stuff for me to cover as well.

**NEW VERSION ANNOUNCEMENT**

GETTING THE STUFF

• Why MonoGame?
• What do I need, and where do I get it?

MONOGAME BASICS

• MonoGame project types explained.
• What’s in the starting project?
• The Game Loop
• Getting a sprite onscreen
• Putting text onscreen with spritefonts 
• Listening for (and responding to) input
• Moving your images around

ADVANCED TOPICS

• More about the SpriteBatch
• More about SpriteFonts