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• EU antitrust regulators clear $69B Microsoft, Activision deal

  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: 12 months ago

• FNA 22.10 is out

  Https://fna-xna.github.io/ this explains it better. Source: over 1 year ago

• MonoGame 3.8.1 is now available for all!

  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: almost 2 years ago

• XNA / AI Programming - AI Development for Beginners

  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: almost 2 years ago

• ContentPipe & ResourceCache - a couple of open-source .NET game content framework I've been working on in my spare time

  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: almost 2 years ago

• What engine/framework would be the best in my case? Pt. 2 or Godot vs Löve2D vs MonoGame

  You are absolutely right. Trust your gut feeling. MonoGame and / or FNA. Best of luck! Source: almost 2 years ago

• Does anybody else just not like game engines like Unity or Unreal or Godot?

  Https://fna-xna.github.io (open source version of XNA, which is a game framework for C#). Source: about 2 years ago

• Why does Unrailed run better on Linux?

  Unrailed uses FNA which has had a lot of native love and care from Ethan Lee. I don't know why it would be any worse on windows though. Source: about 2 years ago

• Bungie has officially denied Steam Deck owners any way to play Destiny 2 unless Windows is installed

  Despite being intended to farm indies for Xbox, there was a turnabout around the time that Microsoft discontinued XNA: two separate reimplementations became viable for game releases. The first is Monogame, and the second is Ethan Lee's FNA. Monogame has much better dev-tools, but FNA uses SDL directly for the runtime and is more elegant for releases. Source: about 2 years ago

• Graphics Engine Only ....

  Does something like fna or monogame fit your list (gamedev frameworks in C#)? Looks like MonoGame.Extended adds scenegraphs. Source: about 2 years ago

• Microsoft XNA?

  You can also check FNA https://fna-xna.github.io/ but I have never used it so I don't know if it's worth it. Source: over 2 years ago

• Chasm 1.080 Is Now Available on Steam with a Brand New Game Mode

  Not yet! It's a fix in the framework the game runs on (FNA). Source: over 2 years ago

• Ethan Lee back from retirement to make devs' Steam Games verified.

  Ethan Lee has been an individual contractor who has ported many games to Linux. More notably, he wrote FNA in pursuit of game ports. FNA is a cross-platform implementation of Microsoft's older XNA game-building framework, that they abandoned but which was the basis for many games then and now. Source: over 2 years ago

• FNA-XNA Released 21.10

  Ethan Lee is the developer behind it. We have him and it to thank for some excellent Linux game ports, including Celeste and Bastion. More info here: https://fna-xna.github.io/. Source: over 2 years ago

• Protondb 'gold' rating is actually a mixed bag....

  FAudio already got integrated into Wine itself. (FAudio is an implementation of 2008 XAudio2 by the developer of the FNA game engine, which is itself a drop-in replacement for Microsoft's discontinued XNA game engine.). Source: over 2 years ago

• Is Monogame still the preferred framework if using Csharp? Anything that utilizes Vulkan available yet?

  Fna is another popular XNA implementation. They track vulkan renderer progress here and appear to be past "Release Candidate" and are now working on "Vulkan By Default". Source: almost 3 years ago