MonoGame is free software used by game developers to make their Windows and Windows Phone games run on other systems. It currently supports Mac OS, Linux, iOS, Android, PlayStation Mobile, and the OUYA console. It implements the Microsoft XNA 4 Application programming interface. It has been used for several bestselling games, including Bastion and Fez.

1. Multiplatform Open Source Game Development with
Dominique Louis, Dean Ellis

2. Dominique Louis (@SoftSavage)
●Doing Open Source for many years
oDelphi
 JEDI-SDL bindings
 DirectX bindings
●Worked on a couple of commercial games
oSiege of Avalon (Now OpenSource - port to C#??)
oHero X
●Ran DelphiGamer.com with Dean way back when (last century)
●Played with XNA back in 2007, MonoGame since Dec, 2009
●Hoping to complete my first half-ironman (Mallorca) in May 2015
●Works on the Profiler Team at Xamarin

3. Dean Ellis (@InfSpaceStudios)
●Worked on OpenSource projects
oJEDI-SDL
oDelphi DirectX
oMoonlight
oMonoGame
●Works on the Android Team at Xamarin.

4. XNA is Serious Business!
Bastion, 500k+ sold Magicka, 1.1m+ sold
1m+ sold

5. Gaming is Big Business!
●Customers spend more time and money on
games than other types of apps.
●Types of Game
oFreemium(largest share)
oAction(quick buck)
oStrategy(long term)
oSimulation(second largest)
●Find your NICHE(grow your fanbase)

6. Gaming is Big Business!
●Examples
oPuzzles and Dragons
oClash of Clans
oFlappy Bird
oInfinite Flight

7. What was this XNA thing
●Microsoft Game API
oSupports
Windows/XBox360/Zune/Windows Phone 7
oDirectX9
oC#
●Free Development Tools
●Supported
o2D/3D
oNetworking
oSound

8. What is MonoGame?
●Open Source implementation of XNA
4.0 API
oOpenGL, OpenTK, OpenAL, DirectX
●Multi-Platform Game
Development
●Write Once, Play Everywhere.

9. What Platforms?
●iOS
●Android
oOUYA
●MacOS
●Linux(lagging)
●Windows
o8 and RT (DirectX)
oOpenGL
●Windows Phone 8 and 8.1
●PS4

10. On the Various App Stores

11. What can MonoGame do?
●2D/3D Graphics
●Custom Effects (HLSL)
●XNA Content Files(*.xnb)
●Networking (Lidgren)
●Sound/Music(via OpenAL)
●XACT (proprietary audio by Microsoft)

12. What can MonoGame do?
●Video Playback
oas per platform
●Native asset loading as well as CP
opng/jpeg/gif/tiff/pdf
owav/mpeg
●Input
oGamepad on Window/Linux/MacOS
oGestures on iOS/Android

13. The Content Pipeline
●No longer needs XNA
●Windows with Mac on the way

14. The Content Pipeline
Demo

15. Why use MonoGame?
●OpenSource
oNo smoke and mirrors
●You have full control
oFork and customise
oWork the way you want, not the way you are
told to.
●Huge Code reuse, due to similar UI on all
platforms(Hitcents say 95%!)

16. The Future
API
Content Pipeline for Mac/Linux
Extend the API
Platforms
WebGL
Xbox One?
Nintendo?

17. Questions ??
monogame.net (News and Discussions)
github.com/mono/MonoGame
youtube.com/MonoGameTeam
Twitter: @MonoGameTeam