Tutorial seven is live
I just finished uploading tutorial seven to the site. It covers adding a component for the player. Check out the MonoGame Tutorials page for the tutorial. Stay tuned for more game programming goodness.
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Tutorial seven status
I’ve been working on tutorial seven in the Shadow Monsters series. I hope to wrap it up tomorrow and upload it to the site. I’m liking the short posts I’ve been doing in on theory without practìcal. If there is something you would like to see covered leave a comment here.
Input use cases
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 […]
Tutorial six is live
I just uploaded tutorial six to the site. You can find the tutorial on the MonoGame Tutorials page of the site.
Tutorial six status and more
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 […]
MonoGame theory
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 […]
Tutorial five is now live
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.
Tutorial five status
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.
Tutorial four is live
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 update
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.