And yeah I've been here for more than a year and know who @ned and @dan are. @dantheman used to follow and vote on some of my posts when he was still part of steemit, inc.
I will see if I can get some prototype working and that might excite some people good at coding the steem blockchain side of things enough to help me overcome those last few barriers. I can make the game as a prototype such that it wouldn't require blockchain integration at all.