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title: "MoonWorks"
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date: 2021-01-23T16:39:09-08:00
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# MoonWorks
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MoonWorks is a free cross-platform game development framework. Its implementation is heavily inspired by [FNA](https://fna-xna.github.io/), which is itself a free implementation of the [Microsoft XNA](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_XNA) API.
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MoonWorks wraps native-code implementations in managed C# for clean high-level abstractions that still run fast. It's simple and it tries to stay out of your way as much as possible.
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MoonWorks **does** provide the components you need to implement a functioning game: window management, input, graphics, 3D math utilities, and audio.
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MoonWorks **does not** include things like a built-in physics engine, a GUI editor, or a standard rendering pipeline. These decisions and tools are better made per-team or per-project. In short, if you know or want to learn what a vertex buffer is, this framework is for you.
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MoonWorks uses strictly Free Open Source Software. It does not have any kind of dependency on proprietary products, and it never will! I have been working professionally on games for nearly a decade and in that time I have learned that proprietary software is utterly disastrous for long-term maintenance of projects. You deserve to have the freedom to own your development process.
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If all this sounds good to you, read on!
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