[dood]

Wow, that's pretty much what I'd be doing if I had infinite free time and much deeper knowledge of CS.

Have you written any more about this anywhere? I'd be very interested to read about your game & systems design and the process you're going though.

[stcredzero]

Nope, this is the first time I've spilled the beans.

[dood]

I heartily encourage you put fingers to keyboard if you can spare the time (and be sure to submit here if you do).

It strikes me as a project of such complexity and delicacy that the risks involved in publicising some of your ideas are much outweighed by the potencial gains from starting a public dialog. (though I would say that, as I'd love to read about it ;)