You click on objects in the world and get their name and how it's pronounced, in Russian which is my native language.

That's pretty much it. Basically I want to be 100% sure that I can accomplish the project. The problem is, as a player, would I want to buy it? I myself am poor and consequently very selective with my entertainment spending. Which means, it'd be too lean an offering for me.

On the other hand, I more or less believe that there are... enough "suckers" out there who'd pick up anything with "language learning" in description... To put it plainly.

I guess that's the short of it. I don't know if that last intuition of mine is correct. And if it is, I don't actually want to scam people. But I don't want to promise something that I don't know that I'll be able to deliver, like... voice recognition or anything as useful and preposterous. Or even a story. I've never written for games. I've never designed a puzzle. All of which would probably add all the value necessary, but more likely just show me my limits.

I suppose you could say "make a prototype". And I know I won't enjoy playing it, simply because, well, Russian is my native language and I like challenge. But I'd enjoy making it, and I like the idea of using videogames for studying languages.

Any thoughts to help my conscience, more or less?

This is an opinion as a player. I don't think this is a game me or anybody I know would pay for. Nevertheless, if I heard about the fun I can have with it and it's free but has some ads, I wouldn't mind giving it a chance and who knows if recommending it to people.

Regards and good luck with it!

The problems with some of those suggestions that I have absolutely zero experience with social or mobile games. So that would be adding risk factors that I'm not comfortable with... Although truth be told, I'd probably prefer a casual game like that in the browser. But I've heard there's no money in that. Not to mention that, again, I don't know the technology.

Well, to be completely brutally honest, I'm quitting my current job. It has nothing to do with this idea, or with my really non-existent game-dev entrepreneur aspiration. But I've still tried to size it up in some way. And my conclusion is that there's no way this project or anything similar can contribute to my continued survival in any foreseeable future... So. Yeah.

I do in general agree with the attitude of continuously trying things out for fun. I used to consider myself the auteur type destined to work 10 years in obscurity on my dream game... and maybe that works for some people, but in the end I personally can't have one thing that I do define me.

I wouldnt pay for a "game" like that. But MAYBE i would install it if it was for free. Then you can have some ads maybe.

But again, if you start out fresh, to deploy this to mobile will still take alot of work from you. You wont see any profit soon (and quite possibly never). There is ALOT of competing apps out there.

If you want to do it for fun and learning, that is another thing. But this "game idea" will not be a safe cash cow for you

Yeah, it's probably best that I focus my mental energy on something more productive at the moment. Just to figure out, what.