I've been writing software for fifteen years, and some of the most important people on the team are project managers and systems analysts who have no programming experience, it's not their job to program.

What you should do, is design the game, COMPLETELY! Come up with all the charts and specs etc... How practice effects skill, how games are to be played. if necessary, enlist the aid of other game designers, either locally or on the net.

Once you have worked out the game in its entirety, then post in the help wanted board for programmers and artists, a completed design makes writing the software so much easier, which in turn makes the project much more appetizing to people.

But then, don't drop the ball as happens with most internet projects, stay on your programmers and artists, set deadlines and goals. If your people cant meet your demands, replace them. It sounds a little cold especially when these people will be working for nothing in the beginning, but if you want to complete a project, thats what you have to do.