Village the Game: Play it. Love it. Live it.

As development of Village the Game moves into a new year, we've thought of many things that Village needs to succeed over the coming years. It's a lot of strategic partnership stuff not just "more computers" and here is but a sampling of Village Wishlist. If you have leads on how to make the following happen, contact the founder firstname@villagethegame.com:

• $300,000 in seed funding to hire a full time core team of game dev, IT, and simulation experts for a year.
  
• University support:
  
• Turn experimental parts of game into university research projects:
• Optimizing quality of simulation according to quality of computer specs.
  
• Dynamically adjusting gameplay difficulty to optimize fun for player.
  
• Get office space and server bandwidth donated while we do our R&D.
• To get a veteran of social enterprise on Board of Advisors.
• A seasoned game veteran like Wil Wright or Sid Meier on Board of Advisors.
• A TGB networking guru who knows all the ins and outs of realtime strategy multiplayer game development and operation.
  
• Website guru to rehaul the site and add functionality like forums, invites, myspace page, etc.
• Infrastructure for uploading and rating user-created content like 3D models, animations. Think http://www.current.tv/ for video game content.
• Partnership with Ashoka and other groups to sponsor a tournament inside VillagetheGame.com; winner of the tournament gets their village funded and built for real.
• A SecondLife programmer/guru to get us started on our presence inside SecondLife.com.
• A flash game guru to build a casual web version of Village with low learning curve that focuses on emotionally connecting to the characters in the game. Think Diner Dash* except you're serving Kickstart pumps, Kiva credit, and MightyLight to your customers instead of food. *Over 1 million copies sold at $20 a pop.