Install a development MonoGame build

Do you want to build your game with MonoGame’s latest and greatest develop branch? You don’t need to wait for official MonoGame releases.

Each time a new commit makes it into the MonoGame develop branch, new builds are automatically released to the MonoGame GitHub NuGet feed. To install them into a project, you can execute the following commands. Note that some of them can take some time to complete as large files are downloaded.

  1. Generate a Personal access tokens (classic): https://github.com/settings/tokens.
    • Make sure that it has the read:packages scope.
  2. Add the MonoGame GitHub NuGet feed. Replace USERNAME with your GitHub username and TOKEN with the generated access token from above:
    dotnet nuget add source -n MonoGameGitHub https://nuget.pkg.github.com/MonoGame/index.json --username USERNAME --password TOKEN
  3. From the folder with your game’s .csproj:
    dotnet add package MonoGame.Framework.DesktopGL --prerelease
dotnet add package MonoGame.Content.Builder.Task --prerelease
  4. To install the MonoGame templates:
    dotnet new install MonoGame.Templates.CSharp::*-*
    With that you will be able to use dotnet new mgdesktopgl -o MyGame.

You can repeat step 3 and 4 whenever you want to update.

You can also install a specific version:

dotnet add package MonoGame.Framework.DesktopGL --version 3.8.4.2602-develop
dotnet add package MonoGame.Content.Builder.Task --version 3.8.4.2602-develop
dotnet new install MonoGame.Templates.CSharp::3.8.4.2602-develop

To remove the GitHub source from step 2, you can do:

dotnet nuget remove source MonoGameGitHub

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