MonoGame.Extended VS awesome-monogame

MG.Extended.Tiled serialization is just XML, if you know how to deserialize XML, you can just read in your maps using System.Xml

MLEM is a library for monogame that has spritesheets and animations. As well as Monogame.Extended. Both open source libraries you can look at for inspiration, or use if you don't want to write your own.

Monogame has a good number of libraries, ranging from utility and QOL stuff all the way up to something like Nez, a huge library completely reworks how Monogame works.

Here are your draw methods for monogame extended sprite https://github.com/craftworkgames/MonoGame.Extended/blob/a3373ac26d90c9801b71b55679f1199fa4ec22a6/src/cs/MonoGame.Extended/Sprites/SpriteExtensions.cs

It seems to have the ability to draw geometry (and much more -> https://github.com/craftworkgames/MonoGame.Extended/blob/develop/src/cs/MonoGame.Extended/Math/ShapeExtensions.cs

XNA re-implementation/extended support seems like a good idea. I'll look into it some more. I also want to share this list of libraries suggested to me for MonoGame support: https://github.com/aloisdeniel/awesome-monogame

I don't have anything to add to Ignatus other than a GitHub repo filled with resources that can help you out.

awesome-monogame

Awesome Monogame has a nice list of tutorials

If you want to avoid duplicating work in the future (and also find some awesome libs), checkout Awesome Monogame: https://github.com/aloisdeniel/awesome-monogame.

awesome-monogame/README.md at master · aloisdeniel/awesome-monogame

Fair warning, base Monogame leaves a lot to you to create yourself. It's technically a framework and not an engine (difference explained here). However, there are several extensions that add specific things you might want.

And as for replacing libraries, I obviously don't know what you've got going on, but there are a bunch of extensions to Monogame that add all sorts of stuff. Maybe there's something in the you can use to help you?