   *insert game here* in a *insert time frame* type tutorials/articles
  I would like to see more articles/tutorials similar to the Tetris in an hour or the "hacknslash" in a week.  I would also like to see some variety in the api's/frameworks used say one using DirectX, one using XNA, one using C#, one using C++, one using flash, etc.   
  I would really like to play duke nukem forever. Is this a demand, request, or information on the whereabouts of such tutorials? The truth of the matter is the sort of tutorials you mention generally teach people things the wrong way, and their only usefulness is to give some novice people the idea that they can accomplish something easily, when they really never build the problem solving capabilities and logic paths in their brain to actually figure out the problems that computer programming presents. You could probably have step by step instructions to build a hack-n-slash in a week, but 99% of you will not understand more then 50% of what you are implementing, and thus cannot really complete a game. If you want a base, use a framework or an engine, and learn the API for that, its a more transferable skill set then following a pattern note for note and pretending you can program.Just my 2c   ;  Have any game in mind?I did something inspired by hacknslash last year   