Welcome to Sharp Watch #3!

Community Watch

• Microsoft DevRadio features Draw a Stickman (which is basically built with MonoGame)
• Want to develop for Win8 but don’t have the hardware? (Then splashtop is your best friend)
• Amazon introduced In-App purchasing (also check here for the discussion of the service).
• We should be expecting the announcement of Sunburn Engine 2.1 soon (which will no longer rely on XNA).
• Developing 2D Games For Windows 8 Using MonoGame – Part #1, #2, #3, #4.
• Global Game Jam 2013 is up and running and we expect lots of MonoGame based games to arrive!

MonoGame watch

• MonoGame 3.0 Stable released!
• DirectX11 for Windows Desktop has been merged to develop3d branch.
• As 3.0 stable is released, developers have been moved to working on custom MonoGame Content Pipeline tools (which means once the work is done we will no more need XNA to be installed for building content-pipeline specific stuff and even better you will be able to use MonoDevelop).
• MonoGame Content Builder command line tool is being worked on and details are discussed here. You can also find tools usage documentation here.
• First working .xnb texture file has been written with the new tool.

Community watch

• Microsoft DevRadio: Using Xamarin to Create the Draw a Stickman app for Windows 8
• A Recipe for Integrating the XNA GS Content Pipeline projects into your MonoGame projects
• Monogame 1: Getting started
• Windows Store 8 Game, MonoGame, SignalR and more
• Write Once, Play Everywhere: MonoGame

MonoGame watch

• MonogGame content pipeline in progress - first XNB files has been written!
• More develop3d fixes!
• And stay tuned for a big annoucement in a few days!

Welcome to ever first series of weekly dev-watch! We will be covering weekly news, tips from the community in the series.

MonoGame.net arrived!

Probably the most exciting thing for the thing is that MonoGame guys opened their brand new website over http://www.monogame.net/ with decent look and quite satisfying content. So if you haven’t yet, make sure to check it out!

Ouya & C# Bindings

The long awaited kickstarted console Ouya, have been started shipping to developers and ODK (Ouya Development Kit) is available now too. Even better, Steve “Sly” Williams from Konaju Games announced availability of C# bindings for ODK. We even got early screenshots of MonoGame working on Ouya!

If you are not aware of Ouya, see the video;

The community watch

Here is the bits from the community with latest news, tutorials and stuff.

• XNA and Beyond, the notable mentions - covers available tools & frameworks for XNA and MonoGame (YNA, Nuclear Winter, Visual Scripting Framework, XPF, Tiled, TileLib,xTiled, tIDE and Gearset).
• Block out some time to play with the C#, open source, block game engine, Voxeliq - Greg Duncan plays with the voxeliq engine.
• Journey of Windows 8 game (SkyWar) for Intel App Up using MonoGame Framework.
• Mono 3.0.3 with concurrent garbage collector announced by @migueldeicaza.
• Cross Platform C# Game Development with MonoGame.
• Creating a Windows 8 Store Game with MonoGame (XAML) and SignalR.
• Using XML in XNA.
• DrawIndexedPrimitive Demystified

MonoGame watch

• The develop3d branch is getting closer to stable 3.0 release and will be merged back to master after.
• @TomSpilman is working on windows-desktop version of MonoGame with DirectX11 support and Voxeliq Engine managed to get it working.
• Ouya gamepad support added.
• We got brand new template icons!
• Installer is being updated for upcoming stable 3.0 release!