For a long time MonoGame had only spurious updates and not a lot of outward activity (as opposed to the frantic and sometimes chaotic internal goings on in the mass of community contributions), this garnered such comments as “Is MonoGame dead?”. The team started a trend just over a year ago by releasing development NuGet packages and publishing the development builds on the main MonoGame.Net website. Still however, there was a drive in the team to do more and make their efforts more public. Fast forward to today and not only have the team released 2 major updates in as many months but they have also implemented an automated NuGet delivery solution.

Continuous delivery

Thanks to a lot of hard work in the background the team have implemented continuous NuGet delivery in two phases:

So what do we get? Well, the current NuGet landscape now stands as follows:

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MonoGame goes fully Universal

The obvious main contender that caused two releases in the recent months was the addition of the new Universal Windows Project (UWP / UAP), launched just in time for all the big announcements at the Microsoft Build conference this year. This opens the door to full Windows 10 development and all the platforms it currently supports:

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Grabbing your releases

Starting with NuGet is fast and easy, just download the installer from the MonoGame.Net downloads page for your platform of choice:

At the moment, you still need the main installer to get access to the awesome MonoGame Content Builder tool. The team are still looking at alternate ways to deliver this tool but for now it’s just in the installer. If you wish, you can then start a new project using the built in project templates and/or update your MonoGame / XNA references in your project with the MonoGame NuGet’s mentioned earlier from the public NuGet server. With that you are ready to rock.

Getting ahead of the curve

If you are the adventurous sort you can get your releases even faster (especially if a much needed fix has just been pushed to the repository). You have two options, you can either grab the development release installers (updated with each successful build):

You could also add our develop branch NuGet feed to your IDE to get the latest development assemblies, here’s how to add it.

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Obviously, if you are extremely crazy, you can also opt to bypass all this install or NuGet option and just use the MonoGame source direct from the GitHub project

Samples a plenty

As ever, the MonoGame project Samples have been updated with the latest releases (Plus a minor clean up fix to tidy up the removal of the old NuGet packages)

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And Yet there is More!

MonoGame is really getting some love of late, especially on NuGet. While checking and testing out the automated NuGet packages, I came across several new packages created specifically to support MonoGame games, here;s just a snippet of what I’ve found:

These are but a few, keep an eye out for others appearing.

I bid you adieu

Well that’s enough MonoGame news for now. Still got to work on my beginner tutorials and a few other bits. Laters