Creatures

[The Hobo]

I'm working on a game in Visual Basic entitled Creatures. The basic outline of the game:

You're a scientist that happened upon a weird lifeform in the woods. You have $3,000 to research these creatures and hopefully become famous and rich in the end. You must, through the game, sustain the life of these creatures and raise funds to do so.

I need help working out some details of the game and what I should and shouldn't include. I've thought of and started implimenting the following:

• Through the game there are 20 organizations that, depending on how far you are in your research, will offer you an amount of money for your research. Each organization has a catch to giving you the money, you must decide whether or not to accept it.
• Depending on your "score" through the game, the creatures will evolve into different lifeforms through the game. This will increase public awareness of the project and more organizations will offer you money.
• There are several disasters that happen through the game, such as equipment breaking, viruses, power outages, etc.
• I'm working on a way to make the creatures do something, for example mate, eat, and move food.

What else would be interesting to include in this game? Any ideas?

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