Well, I blew the 220 I shouldn't have and picked up a 16 gig Zune HD.. Needless to say immediately Kollectiv got put on a short hiatus while I learn to play with the new toy.. I already have Swatt! 's main menu, instructions and credits done along with a preliminary gameplay screen going. About 3 hours work creating the art, or rather editing borrowed art, and coding and learning how to play with the touch screen. The only thing I've experimented with so far though is determining whether the screen is 'pressed'. Released would probably be just as easy, but i haven't delved into dragging or playing with the accelerometer yet. 

Im reallly impressed with the Zune so far, and considering this is my first Zune period, im loving it.

One thing that bugs me.. People don't read instructions. You can put the instructions all over, but people still don't read them. They skip the opening sequences as either boring, or something. With every game I've put on playtest, thats seems to be the #1 issue. I dont like putting in tutorials. I really dont like putting in instructions. Thats part of the fun of a game is figuring out what you're supposed to do, but when I do, I prefer to add them as part of the game.

You know, you constantly see people on the different forums talking about making your code modular. Dont hard code this. Dont hard code that value.. blah blah blah.. You'll never be able to reuse that without rewriting it.. blah blah.. stick it up... nevermind..  In your mind you're thinking, who cares?! It's not like it makes a difference! It's MY code not yours.. So, in an effort to hurry things along, and knowing for an absolute fact that you're not going to have to change this menu class.. its perfect.. you hard code a *LOT* of values into it.