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Re:Show HN: Cross Platform .NET Desktop Application Framework by johnhattan on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @10:39AM (#14410330)
And for games, there's MonoGame.

http://www.monogame.net/

It's based on the old XNA framework. At least one successful commercial game (Fez) was written with it.

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Re:Show HN: Cross Platform .NET Desktop Application Framework by pjmlp on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @12:27PM (#14411205)
Quite a few successful games were written in it, before Unity changed their license model.

Bastion was another one that comes to my mind.

As additional remark, indies have been doing games in C# since the Managed DirectX days.

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Re:Show HN: Cross Platform .NET Desktop Application Framework by zerr on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @03:44PM (#14412877)
Also, Unity is more a tool for designers, while MonoGame or LibGDX are more coding oriented libraries.
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Re:Show HN: Cross Platform .NET Desktop Application Framework by pjmlp on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @04:14PM (#14413089)
Kind of agree, but if you look at the curriculum of universities teaching game development degrees, they have all moved into Unity/Unreal, plus the console SDKs.

Also the love they are getting from MS and Google for VR/AR.

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