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Re:Why decline in generalists leads to disjointed games and ... by Kezzo on Monday October 16, 2023 @03:25AM (#37896739)
He did not write the engine from scratch, he is using MonoGame a framework that takes care of graphics, audio and input: https://www.monogame.net/showcase/
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Re:Why decline in generalists leads to disjointed games and ... by debugnik on Monday October 16, 2023 @04:44AM (#37897180)
MonoGame is a rather shallow abstraction over DX9/10 era APIs, I don't think it's fair to say it "takes care" of much beyond wrapping some platform dependent code. The content pipeline in particular ranges from painful to unusable.
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