If you want to build the next Call of Duty, sure. Engines like Unity and Unreal promise to aspiring gamedevs that they can build the next COD. The reality is th

If you want to build the next Call of Duty, sure. Engines like Unity and Unreal promise to aspiring gamedevs that they can build the next COD. The reality is that most aspiring gamedevs won’t ship a game, partly because the tooling is orders of magnitude more complex than a simple rendering library, and because their aspirations to create the next COD is orders of magnitude more complex than building the next Celeste. Rendering libraries like Monogame hit a sweet spot of shielding the developer from most of the complex rendering maths, while being general enough to allow you structure your code how you like. Simple rendering libraries are a much harder sell though because a capabilities video demonstrating rotating sprites and blend modes doesn’t seem as enticing as Quixel scanned environments or Dynamically globally illuminated assets.