MonoGame is a derivative of XNA Touch (September 2009) started by Jose Antonio Farias[6] and Silver Sprite by Bill Reiss.[citation needed] The first official release of MonoGame was version 2.0 with a downloadable version 0.7 that was available fromCodePlex. These early versions only support 2Dsprite-based games. The last official 2D-only version was released as 2.5.1 in June 2012.
Since mid-2013, the framework has begun to be extended beyond XNA4 with the addition of new features like RenderTarget3D,[7] support for multiple GameWindows,[8] and a new cross-platform command line content building tool.[9]
As of 2025, MonoGame continues to be used by indie developers for cross-platform 2D and 3D games, including recent releases on Steam and Xbox.[10]
MonoGame attempts to fully implement the XNA 4 API.[11] It accomplishes this across Microsoft platforms using SharpDX and DirectX.[12] When targeting non-Microsoft platforms, platform specific capabilities are utilized by way of theOpenTK library. When targeting OS X, iOS, and/or Android, theXamarin platform runtime is necessary. This runtime provides a tuned OpenTK implementation that allows the MonoGame team to focus on the core graphics tuning of the platform.
The graphics capabilities of MonoGame come from either OpenGL, OpenGL ES, or DirectX. Since MonoGame version 3, OpenGL 2 has been the focus for capabilities. The earlier releases of MonoGame (2.5) used OpenGL 1.x for graphics rendering. Utilizing OpenGL 2 allowed for MonoGame to support shaders to make more advanced rendering capabilities in the platform.
Content management and distribution continues to follow the XNA 4 ContentManager model. The MonoGame team has created a new content building capability that can integrate with Microsoft Visual Studio to deliver the same content building capabilities to Windows 8 Desktop that Windows 7 users had used in Microsoft XNA.
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^"Windows 8, XNA and MonoGame".MSDN.Microsoft. August 1, 2012. Archived fromthe original on August 4, 2012.MonoGame is an Open Source implementation of the Microsoft XNA 4 Framework. The goal is to allow XNA developers on Windows & Windows Phone to port their games to the iOS, Android, Mac OS X, Linux with both PlayStation Suite and Windows 8 support currently under development.
^Torre, Charles; Spilman, Tom (November 2, 2012)."Monogame at Build 2012".MSDN Channel 9. Microsoft. Archived fromthe original on July 7, 2013. RetrievedMay 11, 2013.
