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Original post by Wai Re: Acharis, Platinum_Dragon As far as I understand, the customer is the teacher or the schoolboard, not the students. Its competitors are other classroom management and interactive education software.

Exactly. This is the main reason that I am getting my hopes up about reaching payday on this project. Teachers generally wouldn't be spending their own money, but spending some of their classroom budget instead. I know two teachers in my own school who spend $60-$70 a pop buying paper & pencil class simulations from a company in California. Administration doesn't even blink, and simply writes the checks. I know that some schools are scraping for cash, but the schools which have web-savvy teachers and kids that would enjoy my game are generally the ones that can afford a little discretionary spending.

It brings the coding job to another level of complexity, but ideally I'd like to have a basic product that is available for free to all, and then a 'gold' version with a one time fee of $75 to $100, paid by the districts of course.

Add on features could include upload of student photos for the stat sheets, expanded encounter events (the game is turn-based and features these encounters. The free version would have enough encounters for one game, while the pay version would have many more. Heck, with a hot-shit coder on the project, we could let the gold users write their own customized encounters for their own classroom.)

Anyhow, I am getting excited about the project. It's a long road ahead to set up a 'Gold' gaming experience. My current objective is to find someone to work with here and get the free version up and running.

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Original post by BMIJ My current objective is to find someone to work with here

You gotta not say stuff like that outside of the Help Wanted forum. OK?

Ya, sorry.

It's just that this is the thread that actually has intelligent discussion. The other one only got one hit, and that was from some knob end kid who wants to 'manage' my currently non-existent project.

Say, is there some way you could use your god-mod powers to magically teleport this thread over to Help Wanted? That would certainly solve the problem.

- Ken

I'm not sure I understood the concept... You said it would be an internet game and it would be free or one time fee. But if you made it browser game you have monthly server costs and need to maintain/administrate (but being it teacher based should reduce the need a bit) it. I can't really imagine it also with no updates/new features from time to time to keep the interest of players (or maybe that's not required?). Also some promotional budget to send ofers to other schools (unless you want to make it a very small one like for one school only?). Anyway, you have monthly bills to pay, who will pay them?

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Original post by BMIJ 1. It's just that this is the thread that actually has intelligent discussion. The other one only got one hit, and that was from some knob end kid who wants to 'manage' my currently non-existent project. 2. Say, is there some way you could use your god-mod powers to magically teleport this thread over to Help Wanted?

1. So you're saying "I'm looking for my car keysh over here, Offisher, becaushe the light is better here under the shtreetlight than it ish over there where I dropped them." That's a very old joke. Still funny, but old.
2. There is, but I won't. The Help Wanted board uses a specific format. Since you are saying that this thread is not about Game Design but really a Help Wanted post, I'll just close it. You are free to ask Game Design questions here on the Game Design forum by opening a new thread, in which it would be best if you do not say Help Wanted kinds of things.