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_7

7. Game State and Gamepad Input

Louis Salin¹   and Rami Morrar²

(1)

Cedar Park, TX, USA

(2)

San Leandro, CA, USA

 

You have done what is necessary for the base of your game so now you need to build around it. You can’t just have the player start off in the middle of the game, and you want your player to play with more than just a keyboard. Let’s make a main menu and code in a gamepad controller. You’ll start with the gamepad input detection.

Gamepad Detection

MonoGame natively supports Xbox 360 controllers in the framework, so you’ll be using one to map out the input for ...