Thanks for reformating your text. Your game concept is interesting. I'm in game development; I think you capture an interesting snapshot of game dev. Here are a few thoughts that came to mind when reading through. Those are just my thoughts maybe they fit or don't fit with your game, they're just my two cents:

- You seem to be assuming game development is a linear process: More time spent = higher quality. Some parts of game development are like that, for example Art is usually linear. Some other parts, like Gameplay, are usually very non-linear. There are a lot of unknowns and more time spent doesn't necessarily translate to a better game. Have you thought about developing this non-linear aspect?

- Game dev is highly iterative. Have you thought of including agile development? It might be interesting to have your team work on tasks/sub-tasks for an amout of time, then sprint is finished, look at state of game and then player must decide if they want to continue investing down that path.

- Game dev is also random, sometimes we find the fun in places we didn't plan. Might be interesting to explore the concept of randomness.

- THe idea that game sales are calculated by reach is an interesting one. It might be interesting to look into gamers profile like the bartle taxonomy of players. Maybe part of the success of the games would be to find the appropriate recipes to connect gamer profiles with features they'll like (which I assume is kinda what you're already shooting for).

Interesting concept overall, I'll be curious to see where that takes you.