Building games in .NET MAUI

This post provides useful links in relation to the ‘Building games in .NET MAUI’ talk.

Introducing .NET MAUI Book

Available at:

• Springer Link
• Blackwells
• Amazon

Example games

Super Wordsearch

https://www.superwordsearch.com - iOS and Android application built with Xamarin.Forms. Currently under migration to .NET MAUI.

Pairs code repository

https://github.com/bijington/pairs - Sample application originally built with Xamarin.Forms but has a branch showing the migration to .NET MAUI.

Blog post on building a game in Xamarin.Forms

https://blog.bijington.com/c%23/xamarin/xamarin.forms/2021/10/13/building-a-mobile-game-in-xamarin-forms-part-intro.html - Provides a walkthrough on how to build the above Pairs game.

Tips & Tricks

https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/maui/fundamentals/accessibility .NET MAUI documentation page on Accessibility. Contains some great resources to cover what .NET MAUI offers as well as some other concepts.

Useful resources

• Audio Jungle
• Open Game Art
• Trains .NET
• Flappy Bird clone

The power of .NET and SignalR

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jcVYUE-Tww

Orbit game engine

https://github.com/bijington/orbit - Repository containing the game engine that we have looked at in this talk plus some sample games to show how to use the engine.

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