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FNA MonoGameBased on our record, FNA should be more popular than MonoGame. It has been mentiond 16 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.
Emulating "dead" consoles and unchanging APIs is usually sustainable. We'll all be able to play Sega MD/Genesis games and XNA games until the end of time, with whatever hardware, platform, controllers, and video outputs we need. Source: over 2 years ago
Https://fna-xna.github.io/ this explains it better. Source: about 3 years ago
MonoGame is an open-source framework, a thin layer of abstraction over input, sound, and graphics APIs. MonoGame lets game developers write cross platform code that will run on desktop, mobile, and console devices. Many commercially successful indie games have been shipped using MonoGame, and it's similar frameworks XNA and FNA, since 2007. MonoGame is ideal for developers who don't want an engine to dictate their... Source: about 3 years ago
FWIW while this tutorial series looks very old and XNA has indeed been officially discontinued, FNA is a 100% compatible (or at least as 100% as it can be :-P) XNA reimplementation that can be used instead of XNA and is still under active development (last release 11 days ago) while it has been used by a bunch of games already. Because of that most XNA resources should apply to FNA too. Source: about 3 years ago
So a little bit of context here: I'm a huge fan of the FNA game framework. It's an open source replacement for the discontinued XNA 4.0 framework. I think it's fantastic for small scale indie projects, it's such a nice blank canvas "only the things you need" approach. Source: over 3 years ago
To be fair, there is no language that has a framework that contains all of these things... Unless you're using one of the game engines like Unity/Unreal. If you're willing to constrain yourself to 2D games, and exclude physics engines (assume you just use one of the Box2D bindings) and also UI (2D gamedevs tend to make their own UI systems anyway)... Then your best bet in the C# world is Monogame... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago
Defold has been there for a while, not sure of why this in on the front page right now. Anyways, Defold is good, the community, docs etc. Are on the lower side as compared to Godot. The other options include MonoGame https://monogame.net/ (Stardew Valley was written in it) and of-course the biggies like Unity or Unreal. A lot depends on how much investment in learning one wants to make, what is the feature set one... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
You see, for the past several years I have used many programming languages and many more game frameworks and libraries. Programming languages like Java, C#, C++, and even, sadly, JavaScript (I know...). Game frameworks like LWJGL, SDL2, Raylib, MonoGame, SFML, and many more. Essentially, I have seen it all. Out of all of them, I think SDL2 was closer to what I was looking for, though, Raylib was the one I used the... - Source: dev.to / 7 months ago
LibGDX is great, but I can understand if it's not for some people. This also applies to love2d, raylib and Monogame. Source: almost 2 years ago
I followed the Getting Started instructions on monogame.net. Source: over 3 years ago
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