Month: June 2020

There are 4 basic input use cases. A key is down, a key is up, a key that was up the previous frame is now down and a key that was down the previous frame is now up. The same is true for mouse buttons. Analog inputs have more use cases such as how far …

I just uploaded tutorial six to the  site. You can find the tutorial on the MonoGame Tutorials page of the site.

I’ve been working on tutorial six in the Shadow Monsters series. It is going well and I hope to finish it tomorrow. This tutorial covers talking with NPCs. Let’s talk a bit of theory. What exactly should happen in the update part of the game loop. Here is where you update the game world, handle …

Let’s talk a little theory today. The idea of a game is initialize the game world, the initialize and load content methods in MonoGame. Now loop infinitely and each time through the loop update the game world then render the game world, the update and draw methods. There is some timing thrown in there so …

I have  uploaded tutorial five to the site. You can find it on the MonoGame Tutorials page. This tutorial covers adding in NPCs  for the player to interact with. I will be starting the next tutorial soon. Stay tuned for the latest news.

I’ve been working on tutorial five and it is coming along. I should be able to upload it tomorrow. It covers adding non-playrer characters to interact with.  The actual interaction comes in a future tutorial when I add conversations. Stay tuned for news on the tutorials.

I just uploaded tutorial four and published it. Check out the MonoGame Tutorials page for the tutorial. I’ve already started work on the next tutorial. It wiĺl cover non-playrer characters. It also fixes the issues in tutorial four. Stay tuned for more information on the next tutorial.

Tutorial four in Shadow Monsters is just about finished  i will be uploading it tomorrow. There is a small problem with it that I will fix in number five. It is a constant related problem.

I’ve been working on tutorial four in the Shadow Monsters series and I am about half way through. I hope to finish it tomorrow. This tutorial covers adding in shadow monsters. Stay tuned for more information.

Going to switch gears here and just talk a bit. I started game programming 41 years ago at the age of ten. My brother brought home a computer from school that plugged int the TV. It was a TSR-80. I was instantly hooked. It had a few games and I wanted to make more. If …