This is my second attempt.

I will use my own tools framework built on top of XNA – there are Windows 7 + Windows 8 versions uploaded to GitHub

I’ll be using:OS: Windows 7 Engine: XNA / MONO / C# (custom utils) IDE: Visual Studio 2010 Graphics: using my own utilities for creating SpriteSheets & animation 

My XNA / Graphics utilities :     https://github.com/legendpaul/LPUtils

Converted to Windows8 :     https://github.com/legendpaul/LPUTILSWINDOWS8

Animation Helper : https://github.com/legendpaul/AnimationHelper