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[Carnwennan]

PTW even though I have limited math knowledge.

[Vector]

Hey folks--I've fortunately gotten a lot of people interested in helping me work on this, so please post here or PM me with the skills you'd like to supply (or who the contact you're thinking of would supply).  I'll add a list in the OP and contact you as things come up.

Thank you <3

[Gentlefish]

PTW and maybe consider helping if I can do anything.

[Chink]

I will be watching this with interest. Good luck!

[Rose]

I volunteer myself to write all of the dialog for the radiator.

[mainiac]

Oh I missed the request for skill information before.  Well I can:
-Do math, seeing as I have a degree in that
-Program in python somewhat competantly and am willing to learn pygame if needed
-Write?

[Pnx]

I volunteer myself to write all of the dialog for the radiator.

I can tell you're already trying to get your foot in the door for a position working on the radiator's spin-off sequel.

[Glloyd]

PTW

[wierd]

No dating sim centered around math is complete without Erdos.
Are you going to capture his essence as an eccentric math purist, all the way down to his calling people who have gotten married "dead", if you include him?

Bonus if you find some way to work in the player getting an Erdos number for a successful pickup.

[Vector]

That's. . . that's actually a really good idea.

At the moment I'm moving forward with a few other projects which take priority over this, but rest assured that I have it in mind.  I'm still trying to figure out the character balance and the degree to which this should be historicized vs. invented.  If I put Erdos in as a character, then yes, he is going to be himself.  If I just add his traits to a particular character, then of course they will be an Erdos-like, not Erdos.

Calling people who got married "dead" sounds very like the math purist character I was largely designing around G. H. Hardy, however, so I think that particular trait will end up being used anyway.

[alway]

It was those who stopped doing math who he called dead; the married were the enslaved.

The Personality section on that wiki page is great.

He himself doubted the existence of God, whom he called the "Supreme Fascist" (SF).[40][41] He accused the SF of hiding his socks and Hungarian passports, and of keeping the most elegant mathematical proofs to himself.

He spent most of his life as a vagabond, traveling between scientific conferences and the homes of colleagues all over the world. He would typically show up at a colleague's doorstep and announce "my brain is open", staying long enough to collaborate on a few papers before moving on a few days later.

After 1971 he also took amphetamines, despite the concern of his friends, one of whom (Ron Graham) bet him $500 that he could not stop taking the drug for a month.[36] Erdős won the bet, but complained that during his abstinence mathematics had been set back by a month

He's like a math elf who appears on people's doorsteps and publishes something with them, before running off to do it with someone else. More side-character material, really, as he was mostly known for collaborating and never sticking around for long periods of time. Just someone who hops in and out of dozens of stories, impacting each one, but never becoming entwined with them.

[Skyrunner]

XD

That is the most eclectic mathematican ever.

[Tiruin]

. . .I really believe this is the first of its kind in the genre of dating sims.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I am definitely stealing the Supreme Fascist thing.

[wierd]

Another possible idea, is a "picking mushrooms" mini game with grigori perelman, where rather than pick the mushrooms, you fend off the relentless assaults of the fields' medal prize comittee attempting to disturb perelman in his quest to pick them.

Unfortunately, perelman is very much still alive, so that might be too risky of a minigame to add without a disclaimer.

(Perelman received some "clearly unwanted" attention a few years ago for completely stomping one of the hardest, and at the time, still unproven mathemtical conjectures in the entire field of mathematics, known as the poincare' conjecture. Essentially, the conjecture was that one kind of manifold (3d topology) can be used to describe a different manifold, as long as certain criteria are met. (Eg, you can describe a cube as if it were a distorted sphere.) *this proof of the conjecture directly impacts my vocation, as I do 3d CAD/CAM work, and this proof can help improve the software we use, amongst many other things.* Perelman staunchly refused all interviews, refused the prize money, and refused to give any speeches regarding the proof, citing that the math itself was the prize, and everything else was worthless vanity and posturing with no value. (He appears to find the pursuit of prestige to be unimaginably vulgar, to the point that he sees mathematicians attempting to tackle hard problems, soley as a vehicle for attaining the prestige, as a cardinal sin. He seems to view the mathematics itself as the purity to be sought, for its own sake.) Despite this however, the fields medal prize comittee relentlessly attempted to contact him to award the prize and prestige he had repeatedly told them he didn't want, even going so far as to interrupt a mushroom hunting excursion he and his sister had undertaken by blowing up his cellphone.)