Progress as of 3 hours in
Once again, I forgot to start chronolapse until 1 hour in. So my video will be missing a lot of setting up of boilerplate. Not that this is very interesting.
I have now got my internal architecture working, integrated the physics engine BEPU, set up the debug drawer and put a big box on as a temporary level, so I can start on getting a character to run around. Here is my main menu:

This should give you some idea of how terrible awesome my graphics will be. Yeah.