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Getting Started with Monogame for WinRT

Monogame is the opensource XNA development framework where the XNA developers for XBox, Windows and WP7 can be able to port their games for iOS, Android, Mac OSX, Linux, Windows 8 Metro Style apps and PlayStation Mobiles.

As XNA framework is not allowed to create Windows 8 Metro App anymore,  Monogame becomes the best framework to port the current games written in XNA. Monogame framework rewrite the XNA wrappers using SharpDX which is the current fastest Direct X Wrapper for C#.

Although there are opensource game development frameworks for WinRT is available, Monogame is the one that shouldn't miss if you're a former XNA developer or C# programmer.

You will need the following software and tools if you're really new to WinRT development environments.
Visual Studio 2012 Release Candidate 


They're currently in beta, so you can go unlimited trials for these until the final releases comes out.
If you're not planning to integrate XAML to your project, you should download the Monogame Metro Template from here. 

If you are willing to integrate Monogame with XAML, you can click here to see the tutorials.

You can download the Monogame Binary Built from here if you're not willing to make a binary build from your self.

Step 01

Extract the template folder in the  following path
C:\Users\%Profile%\Documents\Visual Studio 2012\Templates\ProjectTemplates\Visual C#

Step 02

Create a new monogame project using the template as shown in the figure below.

Step 03

Now, the new project has created automatically for you to start building games using Monogame in XNA style. You can see the errors if you runs the project now because the binary file hasn't added as a reference yet. Please add the dowloaded binary built for Monogame as shown in the figure.


Step 04

If you run the project now in the simulator mode, you can see the blue screen where you've seen it in the normal XNA blank project window as shown in the figure below.


Now it's time to show your XNA skills to start developing a fun game. It's always better to have an eye on the latest releases of Monogame here.


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