I’ve shifted gears yet again. I’m taking a little break from the day job to work on my #30DaysOfWriting for MonoGame: Code Camps. Fanny Pack’s Sprite Fonts tool has monopolized my time, but I have no regrets. It’s shaping up to become a powerful open source tool for game development. Today should be my last day on this task, though. I need to make some progress on the book while I’m off work. I won’t...

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OK. So now that I’m working on the Tile Editor for FannyPack … I’m still working on writing a new book on MonoGame, but FannyPack is now an integral part of that process. SpriteSheets is (mostly) feature complete. I’m currently designing the Tile Editor tool. I realize that embedding the assets will make the project files HUGE. So, I’m seriously considering crafting the code to support three modes: The current, standalone mode where assets travel...

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FannyPack is again under active development. I’m still working on writing a new book on MonoGame, but FannyPack is now an integral part of that process. SpriteSheets is (mostly) feature complete. I’m currently designing the Tile Editor tool. I’m also converting the site to Bootstrap 3, so please let me know if you see any issues.

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FannyPack is on hold for a while. I’ve shifted my attention to writing a new book on MonoGame. Microsoft’s XNA has been mothballed, so I’m contributing to, and writing about, its opensource replacement - MonoGame. I reset the delivery dates for the first two phases of FannyPack - SpriteSheets and SpriteFonts. I think early next year is an ambitious, but achievable, goal.

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Sprite Sheets is squarely in Alpha (v0.1.0). It’s fully functional, with no known bugs. Only the MaxRects packer and sprite rotation function are missing from my version one wish list. I started work on the second of the three tools this morning - Sprite Fonts. The current plan is to launch the font tool with the following features: Support for all Google Fonts, with others to follow Multiple fonts in the same texture User-specified glyph...

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