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| title: A Year in Review | ||
| date: "2024-12-01" | ||
| excerpt: Details about the educational release of Old School Adventure | ||
| tags: foundation, source, educational | ||
| author: MonoGame Foundation | ||
| image: /images/blog/cover/monogame_foundation.png | ||
| ogImage: /images/blog/cover/monogame_foundation.png | ||
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| # What a year it's been! | ||
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| It has been a year since we announced that we received a very generous donation from Re-Logic and the formation of the MonoGame Foundation. A lot has happened. | ||
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| ### So far in the last year we: | ||
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| * Now have recurring Patreon subscriptions of $788/month | ||
| * Refreshed the website, with more focus on the creators and their titles \- Thanks Chris (ArisTurtle) | ||
| * Overhauled the documentation site and increased the content by more than 500%, with even more to come | ||
| * Released 3.8.2 | ||
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| * #### Appointed to the board | ||
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| * President \- Dean Ellis | ||
| * Chairman \- Marko Jeremic | ||
| * Secretary \- Simon Jackson | ||
| * Banking \- Tom Spilman | ||
| * Member \- Thomas Altenburger | ||
| * Treasurer \- Dominique Louis | ||
| * Please read our [Board Meeting notes](https://monogame.net/blog/meeting) | ||
| * Regular board meetings with full transparency, keeping the community involved in the plans and actions for MonoGame to take it into the next decade. | ||
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| * #### Completed Bounties | ||
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| * [Package up ffmpeg and ffprobe](https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/issues/8241) | ||
| * [Upgrade MonoGame to use BasisUniversal for cross-platform Texture Compression](https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/issues/8419) | ||
| * [A shared base for public and console repos](https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/issues/8242) | ||
| * [Implement the Direct3D 12 / GDK/GDKX backend \#8195](https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/issues/8195) | ||
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| * #### In Progress Bounties | ||
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| * [Switch the console runtime from BRUTE to NativeAOT \#8194](https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/issues/8194) | ||
| * [A better 2D onboarding tutorial \#8317](https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/issues/8317) | ||
| * [A better 3D onboarding tutorial \#8318](https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/issues/8318) | ||
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| * #### More bounties to come in the areas of: | ||
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| * Graphics | ||
| * Optimise and fix DesktopVK | ||
| * Why: it is still experimental and there is some unexpected flickers | ||
| * Content | ||
| * Native Texture Compression and Asset processing shared object | ||
| * Why: enhance assets processing performance and reduce dependencies | ||
| * Upgrade Shader Compiler to use [https://github.com/microsoft/ShaderConductor](https://github.com/microsoft/ShaderConductor) and [https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Cross](https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Cross) | ||
| * Why: retiring mojoshader to allow future improvements on shaders | ||
| * Audio | ||
| * FAudio implementation for DesktopVK | ||
| * Why: replace OpenAL-Soft which can’t be totally XAudio-accurate | ||
| * Tutorials and content | ||
| * Advanced 3D concepts (Some ideas I know this isn’t a planning doc) | ||
| * Custom Effects | ||
| * Culling | ||
| * Shadows | ||
| * Post Processing | ||
| * Scene Management? | ||
| * Deferred Rendering | ||
| * More starter kits for 2D and 3D | ||
| * More shader guidance/samples | ||
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| * #### Bug Fixes | ||
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| * Re-enabled the Unit Tests for PR’s. | ||
| * [Upgrade Mac Editor to net8.0-macos. Upgrade Eto.Forms](https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/pull/8505) | ||
| * Fix Issues with OpenAL Panning on DekstopGL and Mobile [https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/pull/8480](https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/pull/8480) and [https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/pull/8466](https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/pull/8466) | ||
| * [Detect GamePad/Keyboard events on Android](https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/pull/8465) | ||
| * [Remove string allocations when calling GamePad.GetCapabilities](https://github.com/MonoGame/MonoGame/pull/8453) | ||
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| ### What is coming in the next year: | ||
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| * #### 3.8.3 Release | ||
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| * Smoother macOS installation support and Content Pipeline | ||
| * Bump to use latest StbImageSharp | ||
| * more???? | ||
| * The MonoGame.Framework.Native is going to be a principal focus. The plan is to allow the support of NativeAOT on all the platforms which support it. | ||
| * Upgrading the Shader Compiler to support more modern shader models. | ||
| * Improved Content pipeline (Mr H / Harry, details) | ||
| * Automating XNB builds to make using MGCB or the content editor optional, and adding content more easily to projects | ||
| * Full DX12 support on Windows / Xbox | ||
| * Vulkan support to replace OpenGL (Tom to clarify) |