Author Archives: jaquadro

About jaquadro

I am a full time software developer and part time game and game tooling developer.

XNA Templates for Visual Studio 2013

Posted on February 3, 2014 by jaquadro

Before XNA was put out to pasture, a number of developers published additional Visual Studio project and item templates for it. During my quick search on the Visual Studio Gallery, there’s a couple dozen templates excluding the ones for Cocos2D-XNA. … Continue reading →

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When in Doubt, Build From Source

Posted on January 12, 2014 by jaquadro

I’m not a core MonoGame developer, but I try to answer the occasional question on the project’s CodePlex, StackOverflow, GitHub, this blog, etc. For a lot of these questions, I answer back with another question: Did you try building MonoGame … Continue reading →

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Migrating MonoGame Projects to VS2013 and Windows 8.1

Posted on November 20, 2013 by jaquadro

Support for XNA ended with Windows 7 and Visual Studio 2010. Since a lot of MonoGame projects still depend on the XNA content projects to drive the content pipeline, a functional XNA Game Studio environment is still needed. This makes … Continue reading →

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MonoGame “Hello World” on Mac OS X and Xamarin Studio

Posted on September 17, 2013 by jaquadro

After seeing back-to-back issues on Stack Overflow, it’s come to my attention that just getting MonoGame’s equivalent to Hello World running in Xamarin Studio on OS X is … rough. There are multiple pain points that will get in your … Continue reading →

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LilyPath

Posted on August 5, 2013 by jaquadro

Along with a couple game projects, I have various pieces of tooling and libraries that I’m working on. Today I’m sharing LilyPath, a drawing library for MonoGame and XNA. LilyPath provides some of the functionality found in System.Drawing, such as … Continue reading →

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Floppy Music

Posted on May 5, 2013 by jaquadro

Floppy music has been floating around the Internet for a few years now with some real classic demonstrations like Phantom of the Floppera and The Ghostbuster’s Theme on 8 Floppy Drives. “Many Thousands” is probably an understatement of the number … Continue reading →

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MonoGame WinForms Repository

Posted on April 16, 2013 by jaquadro

This is a quick note that I’ve setup a repository on GitHub specifically for code and examples related to MonoGame WinForms controls. You can find it here: https://github.com/jaquadro/MonoGame-WinFormsControls The repository unifies all of the code that I’ve put up as … Continue reading →

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MonoGame + WinForms: Where’s My Keyboard?

Posted on April 11, 2013 by jaquadro

A reader of an earlier post in the MonoGame + WinForms series pointed out a problem I never thought to test for: using MonoGame’s keyboard input with your embedded MonoGame control doesn’t work. Today’s post will solve this. First, why … Continue reading →

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A Cautionary Tale in Code Formatting

Posted on April 3, 2013 by jaquadro

Everyone has their code formatting pet peeves. Whether your favorite argument is tabs-vs-spaces, indentation and brace rules, camelCase-vs-PascalCase, you probably have some anecdotal situation that you staked your position on. Now I’m going to throw in my opinion on a … Continue reading →

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Embedding Your MonoGame Game in a WinForms Control

Posted on March 29, 2013 by jaquadro

This post is a follow-on to my previous entry: Bringing your XNA WinForms Controls to MonoGame + OpenGL. In my previous entry, one reader brought up a good question: once you have your MonoGame-based WinForms control working, how do you … Continue reading →

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