Writing Cross Platform Games with MonoGame and .NET - Stephen Haunts - NDC London 2021

Writing games is fun. Writing games also makes you think in a different way to normal web development, or the development of enterprise software. Even though we have fantastic game engines like Unity, Godot, and Defold; as a C# and .NET Developer, it is sometimes fun to go a little lower level and write the engine yourself. In this talk, I will show you how the MonoGame framework works, and how your application is structured differently to what you might expect in web development. I will also introduce you to a small 2D game engine I have developed called ExoGame2D that sits on top of MonoGame. I will cover the following topics. - The premise of a game loop - Separating rendering from the game logic - Using the MonoGame asset pipeline - Creating a scene graph - Rendering sprites and animated sprites - Font rendering - Bounding volume and pixel-perfect collision detection - Game state management - Rendering user-interface controls - Game engine messaging systems - Keyboard, Mouse and Gamepad controllers Game development is all about having fun, and using a simple game engine allows you to experiment with ideas quickly and efficiently.