Hi all,
I’m currently studying a university game design course - we’ve been using Monogame for two months now, and it hasn’t been easy to learn - our only coding experience before this was Unreal Engine 4.
Our current project is to make a platformer in Monogame with animations, collision, jumping and win / lose screens.
It’s been quite difficult to find up-to-date tutorials covering any of these topics, but clickable buttons in particular have been a nightmare. I’m hoping for a system where players can use their mouse to click a button, and that button would then take them to a different gamestate (in this case, a button to go from main menu to level 1 and a separate button to quit the game.)
My current system of pressing numpad keys to swap gamestates is working well, but the assignment specifically mentions clickable buttons. Any help would be much appreciated.
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Thanks for the welcome! Sorry for not including details, probably would’ve helped 
I’m on the most recent release, NuGet 3.8 on Visual Studio 2019.
The project I set up is “for the Windows desktop using DirectX” and I’m on Windows 10 x64.
I’m testing all this on my laptop, and it’s a computer-only project so any mobile features aren’t (and won’t be) used.
Hopefully all that helps, mainly just looking for some kind of push in the right direction code-wise. More than happy to give out extra details if needed.
Managed to find a helpful YouTube video covering exactly what I needed from the ‘Oyyou’ channel. Github and video links below if anyone else needed a hand.
He goes quite quickly but the method was sound, and I just needed to change the code that changed the background colour into one that changed the gamestate.
YouTube link
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I do this using sprites or spritefonts to represent the button on-screen, then whenever the MouseState indicates a click you can check if it was inside the sprite/font’s Rectangle.
Basically a button is a rectangle bounds check that is wrapped around a texture.
Ha!, It’s the tutorial guy!
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Monogame - Game Dev Tutorials - YouTube
That should cover most of what you need.