>>21614
Honestly though I'm just a useless fucking idea guy so if I had $5,000 to blow I would hire a team of like 6 or 7 people in a heart beat.
Sprite and BG artist, one or two people to code for all of the farming, someone for the dating/socialization, someone to do the minigames/hobbies, maybe a CG artist.
I would have them make the game and shit it out onto steam. I would only claim like 10% of the profits >implying (after Steam's cut and taxes) since they did all the fucking work anyway.
I think at the very least I would want to make the time, date, and weather system myself since the game would practically revolve around those three things.