itsamoose Posted May 6, 2016 I was looking through the posts and couldn't manage to find a general tech thread so I figured I would create one. What spurred this is that I got back into XNA this week via Monogame. I learned on XNA some years ago, and after about 3 days of working with it I'm quite impressed with how well Monogame has been supported, and how widely distributed and battle tested the framework is. There have been a number of games released on it (All Supergiant's titles, Axiom Verge, Towerfall to name a few) and the framework is now available on all modern consoles, android, iOS and Linux. Recently Microsoft even Purchased Xamarin, which is a runtime that can be used to develop iOS games in Windows and has a few other nice features, and to some extent Monogame has gone on to fulfill the promise of .Net in the game development world. I think certainly if you're working in 3D, or are not really concerned with how things work under the hood, Unity or Unreal is a far better option, if for nothing else due to the breadth of tools available. However even after having far more capable and expansive engines, I have never enjoyed coding more than when I was working with XNA, and Monogame is a fantastic extension of that framework. It is such a wonderfully written and accessible API, especially if you are just learning game programming since you can really get a sense of how things work under all those abstraction layers more robust engines have. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gorbles Posted May 12, 2016 General technology thing: Don't write your own game engine. It hurts. Actually, for turn-based enterprises it's probably fine to investigate this kind of thing yourself. But for a realtime game with physics? You'll end up on a rocking chair surrounded by dolls possessed by the souls of the fallen as their mental agony ravages what is left of your catatonic mind. Physics is the devil. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
