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#Monogame for visual studio install
#Monogame for visual studio update
#Monogame for visual studio code

This tool lets us import different file formats into our project without writing any line of code. In case it opens into the editor, you can open it via: left-click / Open with / MonoGame Pipeline Tool You can find it on the rightmost VS window (as shown underneath). To import the texture, we're going to use MonoGame's pipeline tool. I didn't make this, a friend of mine did.

#Monogame for visual studio code

For now, we're going to hard code everything into the Game1 class (I will write some articles about OOP later on).Īs an example, I'm going to use this as our player.

With everything clarified, we can start designing the bases of our first game. Inside Draw, we create the visual aspects of our game, placing textures on the scene. Draw, similarly to Update, it runs multiple times.This method lets us create the interactivity needed by any game, such as collisions detection and input handling.

#Monogame for visual studio update

Update is where most of the main game mechanics run, by updating the game time.

UnloadContent is the opposite of LoadContent: it unloads unused resources once per game.

LoadContent runs once per game and loads all the imported content, such as Textures and Audio.

Here, for example, we could initialize our classes.

Initialize contains all the non-graphic related content, running before the game execution.

Let's see what methods the Game1 class contains: When you work with MonoGame, all of your game logic runs in Game1.cs. The starting point of a MonoGame project is what's called by default Game1.cs.

#Monogame for visual studio install

Since youve already got Visual Studio installed all that youll need to install is the MonoGame framework itself.

Pretending you already have some C# knowledge, I'm going to skip any explanation about the Main method.Īny MonoGame project follows a standard pattern. Exercise: Install MonoGame on your computer. My installation is in Italian, but it should make sense just to provide a context. When creating a new project select " Monogame Cross-Platform Desktop Project". Setting up a MonoGame project in Visual Studio is straightforward, MonoGame provides us with some project templates which can start with. Further, we can use a blank project template.Īll you need to do is getting Visual Studio from Microsoft's website ( VS Community is the free version) and installing it.Īfter that, just download MonoGame from their website and install it. VS provides us with some useful tools such as Unit Testing and debugging tools. The best way to work with MonoGame is to implement it in Visual Studio. If you're interested in setting up a MonoGame project for any other OS, you should MonoGame's website out. PremiseĪs I mainly work on Windows (and I have no access to macOS), this tutorial is going to teach you about setting up a MonoGame project in Visual Studio on Windows. Using Visual Studio to create your first MonoGame Project in C#. Setting Up a MonoGame Project in Visual Studio