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Curated by: MonoGame (15 videos)
An educational stream building games for the MonoGame community, with live tips, tricks and more. This week we are digging deep into Chapter 15: Audio Controller, of the Building 2D Games tutorial. Timecodes: 03:00 - Chapter 15 start 07:36 - Straight into the code! 09:45 - Quick discussion about the importance of the IDisposable interface and memory management 19:34 - Overview of managing the Garbage Collector (GC) in your game, so it does not manage you. 21:06 - Question: Are sound effect Instances managed in a list so we can pause/play them all? 24:06 - A brief discussion about the "Services" registry for managing background code and its use in MonoGame 30:11 - Switching to updating the Game class to use the new AudioController 31:06 - Reminder about the GameLoop and flow 36:20 - Is there a native way to do actions POST the LoadContent finish? Sadly not out of the box, but possible to implement. 53:39 - Is the DynamicSoundEffectInstance a viable method of doing stem mixing/muxing? 56:19 - Question and discussion about the importance of testing on your target devices! - 2D Tutorial - https://docs.monogame.net/articles/tutorials/building_2d_games/index.html - GitHub Project - https://github.com/MonoGame/MonogameUniversity-2D Offline chat available here: https://discord.com/channels/355231098122272778/1429861386690887711