Graphics

• Microsoft XNA Game Studio 4.0 – Simple 2D/3D graphics API to expose DirectX to C#. It also contains libraries for playing sound/music and handling controller input. Many of the games listed on this site were built with previous versions of XNA.

Sound

• C#
  • FMOD.Net – .Net wrapper for FMOD.
• C++
  • FMOD – DSP (Digital Sound Processing) library.  Useful for real-time sound effects or analysis of sound in games.

Physics

• C#
  • Box2D XNA – A port of Box2D to C# / XNA.
• C++
  • Box2D – A widely used 2D physics engine.