Customize the game icon

It takes 2 seconds to set up a custom icon!

This guide is a follow up to Get started.

Instructions

Your project already ships with an Icon.bmp and an Icon.ico. Replacing those two files is the whole job.

Icon.ico is the icon Windows shows for the executable. Icon.bmp is the one MonoGame loads at runtime for the window.

You can make your own icons using GIMP by opening both of your default Icon.bmp and Icon.ico, edit them, and then export using the Export As... command (CTRL + SHIFT + E).

Test

If you just want to test that it works, replace the default icons with these: Icon.bmp, Icon.ico.