MonoGame; reliable enough to be accepted on iOS, Win 8 and Android stores?

Posted by Serguei Fedorov on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by Serguei Fedorov
Published on 2012-11-28T22:08:18Z Indexed on 2012/11/28 23:14 UTC
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I love XNA; it simplifies rendering code to where I don't have to deal with it, it runs on C# and has very fairly large community and documentation. I would love to be able to use it for games across many platforms. However, I am a little bit concerned about how well it will be met by platform owners; Apple has very tight rules about code base but Android does not. Microsoft's new Windows 8 platforms seems to be pretty lenient but I am not sure oh how they would respond to an XNA project being pushed to the app store (given they suddenly decided to dump it and force developers to use C++/Direct3D).

So the bottom line is; is it safe to invest time and energy into a project that runs on MonoGame? In the end, is is possible to see my game on multiple platforms and not be shot down with a useless product?

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