MonoGame-Extended/Monogame-Extended

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MonoGame.Extended is a set of open-source C# libraries distributed via NuGet that extend MonoGame with common game development utilities. It provides features like 2D sprite animation, texture atlases, bitmap fonts, input handling, cameras, collision detection, ECS, particle systems, tilemaps, tweening, and screen management.

Use cases

• add 2D sprite animation to a MonoGame game
• handle collision detection in a 2D game
• use an entity component system with MonoGame
• load and render tilemaps in MonoGame
• manage sprite sheets and texture atlases
• implement a camera system for a 2D world
• create particle effects in MonoGame
• get event-based input handling instead of polling

When to choose

• you are building a 2D game with MonoGame and want batteries-included utilities
• you want modular libraries where you pick only the features you need
• you need sprite animation, tilemaps, or collision detection without writing them from scratch

When to avoid

• you want a full game engine with an editor rather than libraries
• you are not using MonoGame or the .NET ecosystem
• you need heavily documented, fully up-to-date docs for every feature (some docs are incomplete for V5)

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game-engine animation graphics ui-components math serialization graphics cross-platform cross-platform dotnet windows monogame csharp 2d-games ecs tilemap particles sprite-animation collision-detection nuget game-development linux macos

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