Gabe, regarding TV3D, after you compilig your game, do you still have to distribude game engine dll's and maybe some other files with your game exe??
There are up to three DLL's that you might need. I'm not absolutely certain under what circumstances you might need them or not need them, so I won't try to explain it in case I'm wrong. Essentially, there is a TV3D dll, a Newton Physics DLL, and a DX9 dll. If you need all three of them, it's about 5MB in total, so probably not what you would want for a casual puzzle game, but pretty small if you're making a sizeable game. I can't imagine you would want to use TV3D to make a casual puzzle game anyway.