Project type for Windows Phone 8.1 game in VS 2013

Question

I would like to develop a game for the Windows Phone 8.1 platform but I cannot find the project type for game development in VS 2013.

I downloaded the Windows Phone 8.1 development tools from http://dev.windowsphone.com/en-us/downloadsdk. The New Project window in VS 2013 presents three project types for Store Apps ( Universal Apps, Windows Apps and Window Phone Apps ). None of the templates in each store apps is explicitly saying that it is for game development.

I watched a couple of videos and most are out-of-date and use VS 2010 or VS 2012 with XNA. There are some tutorials to install XNA in VS 2013 but I do not want to do this as it seems that XNA is dead. I would like to use the current tools available for VS 2013.

What tools and project templates is Microsoft providing for WP game development in VS 2013?

Answer 1

XNA Game Studio does not support Visual Studio 2013.

Answer 2

You should have the option under Visual C# - > XNA Game Studio 4.0

You can get the full explanation on how to create your first Windows Phone 8 game with XNA in the msdn.