- windows 8 professional or higher operating system
- In order to make use of the windows phone 8 software emulator you unfortunately need this. You don't need the software emulator if u have an windows phone device tho.
- visual studio express 2012 for windows phone (https://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us/downloadsdk)
- monogame 3.1 for visual studio (http://monogame.net/downloads)
- github for windows (http://windows.github.com/)