http://blogs.msdn.com/gduthie/archive/2008/05/11/demo-games-for-zune.aspxSince writing about games for Zune on Wednesday, I found a couple of demo games over on ZuneBoards.com , along with instructions on building and deploying them (you do need to install either Visual C# 2008 Express Edition or Visual Studio 2008 Standarden-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)http://blogs.msdn.com/gduthie/archive/2008/05/11/demo-games-for-zune.aspx#8489363Mon, 12 May 2008 00:43:04 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8489363Kevin Daly<p>That's seriously nifty, and I'd love to develop for Zune myself (a lot better than the thought of struggling with Objective-C), but sadly the Zune Zone has not extended to cover New Zealand yet, nor is there any indication that it ever will.</p> <p>Are there any plans to produce an emulator?</p> <p>Even in cases where I &nbsp;*do* have a device I'm always more comfortable doing early development against an emulator.</p>http://blogs.msdn.com/gduthie/archive/2008/05/11/demo-games-for-zune.aspx#8495499Mon, 12 May 2008 20:30:52 GMT91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8495499gduthie<p>@Kevin,</p> <p>The Zune team is notoriously tight-lipped about future plans, and I'm not aware of any emulator plans at present.</p> <p>If it's any comfort, it works on my machine. :-)</p>