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awesome-monogame

A collection of interesting libraries/tools for Monogame based game projects

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This page lists names, links and short descriptions. The original list on GitHub is the source and belongs to its authors.

General

MonoGame

Source code for the framework and its tools.

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FNA

Desktop unique reimplementation of XNA 4.0 apis. It can be used to build desktop versions and be sure to have the same behavior on all platforms.

In 3 lists

DigitalRune

.NET libraries for developing 3D games with XNA and MonoGame

In 2 lists

Engines

Nez

Source code for the framework and the tools.

In 2 lists

Monocle

Framework created and maintained by @MaddyThorson for their games (Towerfall, Celeste, ...).

MonoGame.Extended

A collection of classes and extensions to make it easier to make games with MonoGame.

CocosSharp

CocosSharp is a C# implementation of the Cocos2D and Cocos3D APIs that runs on any platform where MonoGame runs.

In 2 lists

Murder

Murder is a pixel art ECS game engine.

In 3 lists

FlatRedBall

A game development platform, built in C#, that's perfect for indies or big studios! Built on top of MonoGame.

In 3 lists

SadConsole

A .NET ascii/ansi console engine written in C# for MonoGame and SFML. Create your own text roguelike (or other) games!

Protogame

Protogame is an open source game engine (MIT licensed) written on top of MonoGame and C#, designed to allow game developers to rapidly produce games within 48 hours.

In 2 lists

Gem

A cross-platform game engine with GUI and multiplayer support using MonoGame, Farseer and Lidgren.

Aether Engine

A lightweight, modular game engine.

Corund

An engine for 2D mobile games.

Simplex Engine

Free alternative to Game Maker Studio 2, porting and flavoring GML to C#, running on MonoGame.

Monofoxe

A game engine greatly inspired by Game Maker. It makes game development in Monogame way easier and faster without removing low-level access to the framework.

FlatRedBall

A game development platform, built in C#, that's perfect for indies or big studios! Built on top of MonoGame.

Friflo.Engine.ECS

High-performance C# ECS 🔥 with simple API. Supports .NET, WASM/WebAssembly, Native AOT, MonoGame, Godot, Unity, ...

Tiles

TiledSharp

C# library for parsing and importing TMX and TSX files generated by Tiled, a tile map generation tool.

TiledLib.Net

Cross-platform Tiled map parsing utilities.

Animations

SpriterDotNet

A simple, fast and efficient Spriter implementation in pure C#.

In 2 lists

Spine

2D skeletal animation runtimes for Spine.

In 4 lists

Aether.Animation

GPU & CPU Skinned animation for 3D models.

Spritesheet

Simple helper for creating sprite based animations.

Audio

ChaiFoxes.FMODAudio

Cross-platform C# FMOD wrapper with support for Windows, Linux and Android.

User Interfaces

Gum

Flexible layout tool and runtime for creating UI on any platform.

In 2 lists

EmptyKeys

Create UI from a WPF like XAML.

GeonBit.UI

UI system.

In 2 lists

Myra

UI Library for MonoGame.

In 2 lists

Apos.Gui

UI library for MonoGame.

In 2 lists

Avalonia Monogame Dock Template

Avalonia UI with docking system and Monogame window, for creating your own graphic desktop software.

Interop

MonoGame.Forms

the easiest way of integrating a MonoGame render window into your Windows Forms project.

MonoGame.WpfCore

MonoGame embedded inside a WPF app as a dotnet new template.

Physics

Farseer

Original physics engine with a collision detection system with realistic physics responses built for XNA.

Farseer.Portable

Farseer Physics compiled as a portable class library (PCL) against the PCL version of MonoGame.

Jitter

A maintained fork of the Jitter physics engine, which is used in Protogame.

Humper

Collision detection for Axis-Aligned-Bounding-Boxes (aka AABB) in C#.

Aether.Physics2D

A 2D Physics simulation and collision detection system for MonoGame. Fork of the Farseer Physics Engine.

In 2 lists

BEPUphysics

Pure C# 3D real time physics simulation library. (With MonoGame examples)

VolatilePhysics

A 2D Physics Library for Networked Games

VelcroPhysics

High performance 2D collision detection system with realistic physics responses. (Ex-Farseer)

BulletSharp

NET wrapper for the Bullet physics library.

Box2D.NET

A C# port of Box2D, a 2D physics engine for games, servers, and Unity3D.

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Artificial Intelligence

A-Pathfinding-and-movement-system-demo

A* pathfinding and movement system in C# and MonoGame taken from the Vault-Tech engine

AStar

A* Star Pathfinding Search Algorithm in C#.

Roy-T AStar

A 2D path finding library based on the A* algorithm for .NETStandard 1.0 and .Net 4.5 and higher. This library has no external dependencies.

BrainAI

A library with different helpers to write AI (Utility AI, machinestate, goap,behaviortree), pathfinding(A*, Dejkstra, BFS) and influence map. This library has no external dependencies.

Effects

Penumbra

2D lighting with soft shadows for MonoGame.

MGShaderEditor

Shader Editor for MonoGame's Effects.

DeferredEngine

Deferred rendering engine written to make developing and understanding custom shaders easier.

Aether.Shaders

Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing shaders. Deferred rendering shaders.

Consoles

SadConsole

A .NET ascii/ansi console engine written in C# for MonoGame and SFML. Create your own text roguelike (or other) games!

QuakeConsole

Quake-style console for MonoGame.

Pipeline

NoPipeline

Pipeline Tool addon which makes resource management seamless and hassle-free.

AR/VR

OculusRift4MonoGame

Oculus Rift support for MonoGame.

Networking

MonoSync

Synchronization layer for multiplayer games.

Backdash

Rollback network SDK

Helpers

2D Primitives

Extends SpriteBatch to allow to draw various shapes, mainly for debugging purpose.

LilyPath

A 2D path and shape drawing library for MonoGame and XNA.

FSMsharp

Incredibly small finite state machine for .NET languages, written in C#. Useful for UIs and games.

Mono.GameMath

Optimized math for games, based on XNA APIs.

2D Camera

A highly-optimized, flexible and powerful 2D camera for MonoGame

Comora

A simple 2D camera for MonoGame.

XNALibrary

XNA/MonoGame tool library. IsolatedStorageFile Wrapper, Garbage-free StringBuilder, Phasor, Timer, Scheduler, InputState, PMS/duty-cicle Vibrate control, Common Vertex types, DataStructures & Collections.

Transform

Base objects for managing relative transforms.

MGLayers

Layered and packed asset loading extensions for MonoGame.

FbonizziMonoGame

It defines some tools for MonoGame (like a ParticleGenerator) and abstractions over Windows UWP and Android (like a SettingsRepository)

Apos.Input

Input library for MonoGame.

Samples

XNAGameStudio

The Education library from XNA Game Studios, valuable for MonoGame Developers for advanced samples.

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