MonoGame Spotlight

MonoGame Foundation has kicked off the second episode of MonoGame Spotlight, a community-facing series meant to highlight games, libraries, and tools built with MonoGame or compatible with it. The premiere is already live, and the format is broad enough to cover shipping games, upcoming projects, and ecosystem tools rather than just finished releases.

For developers, the practical value is discoverability. The episode name-checks a mix of milestones and projects, including MonoGame’s 15-year anniversary, Stardew Valley’s 10-year anniversary, a ZX Spectrum emulator by Marco Cecconi, and Vlad Circus: Curse of Asmodeus as a finalist for Best Game: Latin America. It also calls out recent releases like Scott Pilgrim EX, GPX, Dungeon Trail, Jolt Stone, Mr. Sparkle’s Nightmare Demo, and Tamashika, plus upcoming titles such as Marvel Cosmic Invasion Collectors Edition and Born From The Soil.

The spotlight isn’t limited to games. It also mentions libraries and engines like Quaternius and XNAFiddle, which matters because MonoGame’s ecosystem often lives or dies on the quality of surrounding tooling, examples, and reusable components. That makes this more than a marketing reel; it’s a lightweight index of what’s active in the community right now.

MonoGame is also explicitly asking for feedback and submissions, including titles that should be featured and suggestions for improvement. For teams shipping with MonoGame, that’s a useful reminder that visibility can come from community channels as much as store algorithms, and that contributing tools, blog posts, or even bounties can...