MonoGame.Extended is an open source extension library for MonoGame. It is a collection of classes and extension methods to make it easier to make games with MonoGame. It makes MonoGame more awesome.

Development status

MonoGame.Extended is a work in progress. New classes are being added almost every day and I'm blogging about them on dylanwilson.net. We have a very early alpha Nuget package released but keep in mind the API is likely to change as the project grows.

How to install

See the How to install MonoGame.Extended blog post. Here's the TL;DR version:

The library is distributed as a NuGet package. Add a reference to your project using the following command:

Install-Package MonoGame.Extended -Pre

The package comes with 2 DLLs:

MonoGame.Extended.dll
MonoGame.Extedded.Content.Pipeline.dll

The MonoGame.Extended.Content.Pipeline.dll is intended to be used with the Pipeline tool. To reference the DLL in the Pipeline tool you'll edit your Content.mgcb file.

#-------------------------------- References --------------------------------#
    
/reference:..\..\packages\MonoGame.Extended.0.2.0.0\lib\MonoGame.Extended.Content.Pipeline.dll

Contributing

If you would like to contribute start with one of the following:

Your thoughts on what should be included in the library
Join the discussion on one of the other issues
Talk about it on your blog or twitter
Vote on a task in the Trello board
Create demos and samples using MonoGame.Extended
and of course, you can fork the project to start making changes

Design goals

A clean and consistent API familiar to MonoGame developers.
It's not a game engine, but extends the framework with code to make games.
Follows C# coding guidelines.

License

MonoGame.Extended is released under the The MIT License (MIT).