Game Development with MonoGame: Build a 2D Game Using Your Own Reusable and Performant Game Engine

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L. Salin, R. MorrarGame Development with MonoGamehttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7771-3_2

2. The Content Pipeline Tool

Louis Salin¹   and Rami Morrar²

(1)

Cedar Park, TX, USA

(2)

San Leandro, CA, USA

 

Sometimes improving a game concept means improving some of the structural components of the game, which may not yield any visual improvements. For example, if you want artists to contribute to the game and create 2D animations to embellish the game, it would save everyone some time if the artists could define each animation frame’s position and dimensions on the sprite sheet. As it is right now, that information is defined in the code, so modifying a sprite sheet ...