# Tiled and monogame

**URL:** <https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/tiled-and-monogame/3340>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [August 6, 2018, 3:47pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/tiled-and-monogame/3340 "2018-08-06T15:47:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Krzysiek\_Kowalczyk](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.mapeditor.org/krzysiek_kowalczyk/32/1957_2.png) [@Krzysiek\_Kowalczyk](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/Krzysiek_Kowalczyk)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 3:47pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/tiled-and-monogame/3340/1 "2018-08-06T15:47:45Z")

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Hi, I’m new to forum. Recently I ended c# course on [rbwhitaker.wikidot.com](http://rbwhitaker.wikidot.com). I want to use monogame on my projects ( mainly arcade shmups, run’n’guns, platformers). Is tiled good for those type of games? I ask b’coz only info I found was on rpg’s.

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**Author:** ![bjorn](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.mapeditor.org/bjorn/32/1599_2.png) [@bjorn](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/bjorn)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 4:20pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/tiled-and-monogame/3340/2 "2018-08-06T16:20:00Z")

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When I follow your link I get a “Not a valid community” page.

But in any case, there is no particular reason Tiled would not be suitable for creating any kind of tile-based and even non-tile-based maps. It is meant to be a generic and flexible map editor and is not limited to RPGs.

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**Author:** ![the-simian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex035/user_avatar/discourse.mapeditor.org/the-simian/32/1800_2.png) [@the-simian](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/u/the-simian)\
**Post date:** [August 6, 2018, 5:43pm UTC](https://discourse.mapeditor.org/t/tiled-and-monogame/3340/3 "2018-08-06T17:43:38Z")

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It is not only good for this, it is probably the best tool available for this. It outputs JSON, and anything that is a programming language can read that and make sense of it.

Also after a very quick google search I can see this:

> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33783754/drawing-a-tiled-map-with-monogame>

make note:  
The [MonoGame.Extended](https://github.com/craftworkgames/MonoGame.Extended) **library** has support for loading and rendering **Tiled** (.tmx) **maps**.

Here is the library.

> **[craftworkgames/MonoGame.Extended](https://github.com/craftworkgames/MonoGame.Extended)**
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> Classes and extensions to make MonoGame more awesome - craftworkgames/MonoGame.Extended

In other words ‘Yes’, this will work and it is supported.