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Hello,

This is a small game programming series using MonoGame.

Microsoft has stopped working on XNA and so here is MonoGame, to replace XNA. MonoGame is built off of the XNA framework and can be used to build games for windows, windows 8, windows phone, linux, mac, Android, iOs and soon to be Playstation 4 as well.

MonoGame is 100% free

Download: http://monogame.net/downloads

Some games built with MonoGame:





I will cover various aspects with MonoGame but for now let's just get MonoGame installed and ready to use.

• Install Windows 8
  Install Games for Windows http://www.xbox.com/en-US/LIVE/PC/DownloadClient
  Install Windows Phone 8 SDK http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=265772
  OR Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=258412
  Install Visual Studio 2012 for Windows 8 http://bit.ly/QvLWLX

You can also use any of the paid versions of Visual studio 2012, express is free
After you have everything on that list installed run the installer for MonoGame (my first download link).

If all goes well, when opening visual Studio 2012, Click New Project, under Visual C# you should see the new MonoGame templates. Create a new project and run it. If it worked you should see a window with a cornflower background.

Congratulations you can now use MonoGame!

A more in-depth tutorial: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tarawalker/arch ... ation.aspx

If you want to request a specific tutorial leave a comment! and remember to +Rep if I've helped