Microsoft is developing a new avenue to develop games for Xbox One called the Xbox Live Creator's Club.

It looks similar in some respects to Xbox Live Indie Games (Indie Xbox 360 games developed via XNA). I had a great time with XNA and Xbox Live Indie Games. It looks to me like in some ways a continuation of the spirit behind Xbox Live Indie Games. If you are interested in publishing on the Xbox One and are unsure about using ID@XBOX, I would highly recommend checking it out.

Xbox Live Creator's Club is currently in preview mode, so you have to go through a special application process to get in while they are starting to roll it out. If you get in early though perhaps you could be one of the first games published via the new system which would be awesome. If you apply now, worst thing that happens is they tell you to wait until it is fully unveiled.

Excerpt from: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/games/xbox/xboxlive/creator

Xbox Live will soon be open to all developers via the Xbox Live Creators Program – no concept approval required! You will be able to rapidly publish your game to Xbox One or Windows 10 through a short and simplified certification process.

Integrate Xbox Live social experiences such as sign-in, presence, leaderboards, and more into your title, with minimal development time. Xbox Live social features are designed to organically grow your audience, spreading awareness to over 55 million active gamers. The full set of Xbox Live capabilities is available via the ID@Xbox program and a table comparing the features is below.

Using tools you already use, and your existing Xbox One retail console, you can easily create or leverage existing code to develop your title. Supported game engines include Construct 2, MonoGame, Unity, and Xenko. We anticipate more game engines and tools to support Xbox Live Creators Program over time. Please check with your preferred game engine for their support of the Creators Program.

On Xbox One, which offers gamers a curated store experience, games published through the Xbox Live Creators Program will be available in the new, "Creator games section" within the store. On Windows 10 PC, games in Xbox Live Creators Program will be visible with the other games in the Windows Store.

In case you hadn't noticed, MonoGame released version 3.6 last week. It includes a lot of bug fixes, Xbox One support in the UWP template, and templates compatible with Visual Studio 2017.

http://www.monogame.net/2017/03/01/monogame-3-6/

-Brett

They cover everything from Shaders to array best practices to managed code performance to a RPG framework.

Anyways, here is the ported samples: https://github.com/DDReaper/XNAGameStudio.

I was doing some more research on the XBOX ONE and MonoGame and thought I would share. If you are interested in targeting XBOX One or Windows 10 Store App, I would recommend reading this post by Microsoft: http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/Developers/id. Some highlights are below.

If you'd like to enable Xbox Live for your UWP game on PC, or ship a UWP game commercially on Xbox One, you will need to be part of the ID@Xbox program. And of course all developers are welcome and encouraged to join ID@Xbox to get the latest news for independent game developers from Microsoft!

Can I use my retail Xbox One as a developer kit? Yes, you can. Once you download the preview version of the Xbox Dev Mode Activation app, you can unlock dev mode on your Xbox One and experiment with creating games for a "10 foot" living room experience. You don't need to be part of ID@Xbox to get started, but we're here to help if you want to ship a UWP game on Windows 10, or ship a game on Xbox One. You can go here to learn more.

Do all games for Windows 10 need to go through ID@Xbox? No. Only titles that want to feature Xbox Live are required to be part of ID@Xbox. Xbox Live lets you offer your players things like Gamertag identity, Achievements, Gamerscore, custom multiplayer features and more.

A while back I stumbled across a great video that introduces MonoGame and covers a little history on why it was created. It is a great high level overview of the MonoGame framework that I think is worth watching if you are interested in or using either XNA or MonoGame.

The video was created by Mike from gamesfromscratch.com. There is a set of tutorials with the video that can be found here: http://www.gamefromscratch.com/page/MonoGame-Tutorial-Series.aspx.

Of course, RB has a great set of MonoGame tutorials on this website that can be found here: http://rbwhitaker.wikidot.com/monogame-tutorials.

I use Blender for most of my 3D modeling like a lot of others since it is free and has a lot of features, if not always easy to use. In my experience, getting 3D models exported from Blender and running properly in XNA had some quirks. Unfortunately, 3D models from Blender seem to have trouble importing into MonoGame as well, but they are different than XNA.

Below is my experience so far. I haven't gotten .FBX to import but I do have .OBJ importing with some minor additional steps. I would be curious how others are fairing getting Blender Models into MonoGame projects and they steps they take.

.OBJ
When exporting a model as .OBJ from Blender, after some minor file changes, I can get the model rendering in MonoGame with the proper texture. This worked with both Blender 2.68 and Blender 2.77a.

There should be an associated .mtl file built when Blender exports the .OBJ file. The .mtl file will reference the model's texture. In my case, the .mtl file was looking for the texture on my desktop for some reason. See the uncorrected Asteroid's full MTL file below.

# Blender MTL File: 'Asteroid.blend' # Material Count: 1 newmtl Material Ns 96.078431 Ka 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 Kd 0.640000 0.640000 0.640000 Ks 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 Ke 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 Ni 1.000000 d 1.000000 illum 1 map_Kd C:\Users\username\Desktop\RockSmooth0188_1_S.jpg map_Bump -bm 0.200000 C:\\Users\\username\\Desktop\\RockSmooth0188_1_S.jpg

I edited the last two lines to search for the texture file in the same directory that the .MTL and .OBJ file are located as so:

map_Kd RockSmooth0188_1_S.jpg map_Bump -bm 0.200000 RockSmooth0188_1_S.jpg

Now you can add both the .OBJ and texture file (RockSmooth0188_1_S.jpg in this case) into the MonoGame pipeline. DO NOT add the .MTL file to the content pipeline, but place it in the same directory as the .OBJ file and texture file that the Content Pipeline is referencing.

The Content Pipeline will default to not setting the Importer and Processor for a .OBJ file. You must manually set the Importer to Open Asset Import Library - MonoGame and Processor to Model - MonoGame.

Now, you should be able to build the content pipeline and load the model into MonoGame without trouble.

.FBX
When exporting a 3D model from Blender as a .FBX file, I am unable to get the modeling rendering in MonoGame.

A direct FBX export from Blender (version 2.68), gives the following error after adding to MonoGame Content Pipeline and attempting to compile: Error importing file: FBX-DOM unsupported, old format version, supported are only FBX 2011, FBX 2012, and FBX 2013.

A program called Autodesk FBX converter (free program) can be used to convert the .FBX to FBX 2013 format. When updated to the new format, the MonoGame content pipeline built without errors. However, when I attempt to load the model using Content.Load<Model>("…") in the code, I got the following error: An unhandled exception of type 'Microsoft.Xna.Framework.Content.ContentLoadException' occurred in MonoGame.Framework.dll. Additional information: Could not load Asteroid asset as a non-content file!

I verified that the model was serialized into .XNB format and was in the right directory under DEBUG, so unsure why MonoGame is attempting to load the file as non-content.

Also, I had to place a copy of the .JPG texture in the root project directory in addition to adding it to the MonoGame Content Pipeline. This may be an issue with the .FBX file looking in the wrong place for the texture and may be fixable.

.X
Have not attempted yet.

This is great news for XNA and MonoGame. Anyone working in XNA on a project should be able to port it to MonoGame and someday release it onto the Xbox One. I'll be very curious to see what the final process looks like.

Thanks to RB for pointing this tidbit out in the Chat Room!

Actual Article: http://news.xbox.com/2016/03/14/letter-chris-charla-idxbox-updates-gdc/

Another small issue regarding the content pipeline of monogame, I have been having issues when creating a level editor for my 2D game I am making for a uni assignment. basically, it's a project that uses a winform I use and requires to be able to access the .png and the .xnb at the same time. I do not however how to translate this knowledge into monogames content pipeline because the properties of the .mgcb may be the same, but do not give me the same outcome.

I was hoping someone here might know how to do this?

 public partial class MapEditor : Form { public Game1 game; public MapEditor() { InitializeComponent(); } private void LoadImageList() { string filepath = Application.StartupPath + @"Textures/Tiles.png"; Bitmap tileSheet = new Bitmap(filepath); int tilecount = 0; for (int y = 0; y < tileSheet.Height / TileMap.TileHeight; y++) { for (int x = 0; x < tileSheet.Width / TileMap.TileWidth; x++) { Bitmap newBitmap = tileSheet.Clone(new System.Drawing.Rectangle( x * TileMap.TileWidth, y * TileMap.TileHeight, TileMap.TileWidth, TileMap.TileHeight), System.Drawing.Imaging.PixelFormat.DontCare); imgListTiles.Images.Add(newBitmap); string itemName = ""; if (tilecount == 0) { itemName = "Empty"; } if (tilecount == 1) { itemName = "White"; } listTiles.Items.Add(new ListViewItem(itemName, tilecount++)); } }

I can't link images due to being new to the site, but if you need an image of what I'm trying to do please let me know!

Edit: One of my team members altered the way the bitmap loaded in to prevent the error.

I'm new here and this is my first post so I'm sorry if I make any mistakes! Erm, anyways more to the point.

Recently I've been reading this book: "XNA 4.0 Game Development by Example: Beginner's Guide" by PackTPub. I've ran into issues because as the book says it is made to teach you XNA, and there is a huge lack of Monogame tutorials on the web, or at least so I find.

My team and I who have been put together by the Uni have been asked to make a game of our choosing for Agile Development, we chose to do a 2D Action RPG game (which doesn't have to be super complicated, the RPG bit is just a hopeful goal) and the Gemstone Hunter Tutorial seemed to be the best bet for a starting point.

Now to the issue, I've been unable to follow chapter 8 and 9 in this book, as Monogame seems to struggle with mult project/library collections, I have tried multiple ways of creating a tri library like the chapter 8 asks, but alas I have had no joy. I cannot use any other coding software as the Course specifically ask for Monogame, so I really would appreciate any help you can throw in my direction!

Just a short question: is there anywhere any kind of a source sample for a monogame application (for Windows Phone) which has a working "screen manager". Actually I am looking for a running example which includes a monogame project that shows a way to handle screens (Game screen, Menu screen, Options screen, Pause screen) in a way like the old "Game State Management" for XNA/Mango. But there seems to be no example.

Best regards
rook

I'm enjoying the Monogame Tutorial since some days.
I am still learning C#, i have strong basis but i can't say that i am a programmer for now. Anyway.
I was following the "Getting Started Monogame Tutorial" and i met an issue with the content pipeline subject.

I am using Visual Studio C# Express 2013 for Windows desktop.
I tried to install the Rb Whitaker's script "Monogame Content Pipeline" to handle the content pipeline but the install didn't fully work (that say that it can't find some directories on my computer) and the template project "Monogame Content Project" never appeared.
After that, i tried to install xna in my own way (the normal way in fact) and the result gave me an add-on named "Content Pipeline Extension Library".
I tried to add it to my solution but that warning appeared :

Warning 1 The referenced project 'ContentPipelineExtension1 target superior framework version (4.5) to the current version of the project target framework (4.0). This can cause the failure of generation if the types of assemblies outside the target framework of this project are used by a project in the dependency chain. Game1

I can't solve the issue …
Someone can help me with that ?
Do you know if the official Monogame content pipeline is out and ready to work ?

Thanks

public void Update()
{
currentFrame++;
if (currentFrame == totalFrames)
currentFrame = 0;
}

The last frame (frame 16) will never be showed this way. In my humble opinion, shouldn't it be:

public void Update()
{
if (currentFrame == totalFrames)
{
currentFrame = 0;
}
else
{
currentFrame++;
}
}

I've successfully followed you tutorials with the goal of replacing OpenTK with Monogame for my application.

However, I've noticed that the .xnb files which the XNA Content project generates are huge in comparison to the original .png files (sometimes more then 10x the original size!). So far, I've been unable to figure out how to, f.e. add compression options or how to reduce the colordepth of the textures, in order to reduce the size somewhat.

In your method, is it possible to apply some form of compression or alter the properties of the generated XNB's in any other way?

Thank you.

Can someone help me publish my project correctly?

I have a problem trying to run a game i ported to MonoGame. The building of the solution works fine, as i can run it when in debug mode in Visual Studio or opening the exe file from the debug folder. However, when i publish it (i'm using click once) and run the set up, at the moment of opening the game i get the error message:

Application has stop working

and this details:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: CLR20r3
Problem Signature 01: fireball.exe
Problem Signature 02: 1.0.0.0
Problem Signature 03: 537ef4de
Problem Signature 04: mscorlib
Problem Signature 05: 4.0.30319.18444
Problem Signature 06: 52717edc
Problem Signature 07: 442a
Problem Signature 08: ce
Problem Signature 09: FHPCUUF52YYP2ZYVPQD3AR2BZX5BJVNS
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1026
Additional Information 1: 0a9e
Additional Information 2: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789
Additional Information 3: 0a9e
Additional Information 4: 0a9e372d3b4ad19135b953a78882e789

Does anyone experienced this problem?

I tried the most basic project template, and the published files works as the window with the blue background appears, so that makes me guess the problem is in my code?

Thanks a lot for the help.

In both cases, the root cause was a graphics driver issue where the Microsoft supplied driver was not sufficient to resolve the references from OpenTK . I had to download the driver (for my computers from ATI) and replace the MS driver. This solution is also mentioned at stackoverflow