I'm new to game development (although not new to programming) and i'm trying to learn.

Currently, I'm using the SharpDX.Toolkit API with C# to make a simple test 2D game, but a question arrived as i was writing code to load sprite sheets:

How do i store my content/game assets on the disk?

Currently, i've a folder in my project where i place the assets for loading but, as i was setting the build action on the test sprite sheet, i realized that this might not be the way to do it on a game if i wan't to release it.

Although i'm not concerned with users swapping sprite sheets or using them somewhere else, maybe there's some other problem in doing it ike so?

What's the best way to store the game assets if you're using a content manager like the one SharpDX provides?

That's exactly how i'm doing it, but my sprite sheets are plain png files and i've never seen any game exposing those files, so i thought i was doing something wrongh, it's good to know that's not bad, thanks!

I used XNA, but as it's losing support, i decided to move to a new framework, after taking a look at MonoGame, I decided to go with SharpDX. it wasn't a logical decision, I just felt it was the best to do...

about the xnb files, they are the reason i asked the question, i've no clue if they're used for speeding up loading time or just to hide the assets...

what i'll end up doing for the final game is to set the assets as embedded resources in another assembly and load from there, does that sound reasonable?

I hope MonoGame further separates itself from XNA and does things like making the content pipeline optional and the various classes instantiatable outside of it (spritefont, effects, etc). I can never get the content pipeline to work properly with Monogame.