Okay I'm just an idiot. I'm sorry the option was there I just wasn't looking under the XNA Game option on the new project window.  Maybe the Mods will be nice enough to delete my post before anybody sees it :)

I'm just getting started with XNA and have downloaded and installed everything I thought I needed. However when I go to start a new project I don't have any of the XNA 2.0 templates. I do have XNA Game Studio 2.0 installed and I did launch Visual C# 2005 Express from the XNA menu off of the Windows Start menu. I was following along with ...

Good thinking. Start with smaller projects to help learn the basics of the language itself. If you dive right in and try to worry about everything (art, sound, music, design, etc) you'll feel overwhelmed and discouraged.  It's when we take things one small step at a time that we find fast paced advances. ~Marshall

[quote user="The ZMan"] Start small - write some simple games and progress from there until you are asking much smaller questions about small parts of your game. [/quote]  That's great advice. Many people come around asking what seems to be a simple question but in reality the question is very complex and can't be ...