So, I sat down to see what this MonoGame thing was all about.
I used to mess with XNA back around version 2.
Well, I have to say...I liked it. Easy to get up and running.
Joust was one of my favorite games from the 80's.
[ Here ] is a link to my hobby remake version. (follow to google drive download location)
Cool game and congratulations for a project well done!
I also read the whole Wikipedia entry for the game too :-)
On Windows (I'm happy to be corrected) I don't *think* you need the VS runtime; you will however need the .NET runtime (although whether you can get one without the other, I don't know). Along with any other external dependencies you use, like OpenAL.
I ran it on my Mac and it worked perfectly first time! I do already have mono installed, but otherwise there was no dependency hunting/upgrading needed (Macs come 'batteries included' with lots of libs & tools).
I ran it on my Mac and it worked perfectly first time.
Wait...you mean Mac boot strapping windows right?
Haha - nope! Directly on OSX!
Mono is a cross-platform implementation of the CLI runtime and .Net class libraries (large portions of it anyway).
So (a bit like Java) your binaries are not compiled for a specific platform as a C++ binary would be. In fact they are really just CIL bytecode packaged as assemblies which can then be executed under either "Mono for OSX" or ".Net for Windows".
All it took was for me to type: mono Joust.exe
Into the comandline and it launches.
Hi Goliath Forge!
Just tried it out (worked like a charm after a fresh openal install), pretty fun and controls well (I did not played the original so I can't compare).
Oh and most importantly, before I forget:
XNA (now I guess MonoGame & FNA) FOREVER!!! :D