I’m going to give this another shot.  My attempt during LD22 did not go as planned and feature creep/large scope caused me to bow out.  Not this time.

Tools

Language:  C#

IDE:  Visual Studio 2010 Pro

Framework:  XNA

Personal library:  https://bitbucket.org/deadpixelsociety/twodee

Visuals:  Paint.NET

Sound:  sxfr