I go to U of Michigan and every year we have a 48 hour video game creation competition, where just about all of the design (they give u a theme) and coding (we brought in a collision engine) has to be done in that time.
So just lookin for ur guys opinions
http://entity.ummu.umich.edu/~wsoft/project.php?id=97
make sure u have the lastest dx9 if it doesn't work