Create Awesome Music Game. Paid Work.

Hi everybody, my name is Justin Forster and I direct a company called Online Music Solutions. We teach instrumental music at primary schools around Melbourne, Australia.
We are currently in the process of developing a number of gaming products for our students and are looking for a reliable and experienced development team to build at least one game for us.

The game is designed ultimately to develop music reading skills and will go like this:
A large stave is permanently embedded across the screen and notes move across the stave in their correct location. The students have to correctly click on the name of the note at the bottom of the screen to gain points.
Points earned in game can be used to buy items to fill the player’s initially bare warehouse and eventually turn it into a fully blown gig venue with rockin’ effects - lasers, smoke machines, groupies, 10m high stacks of amps, etc.

The game needs to be very visually appealing for kids aged 6-13 – it should “wow” the player. I’m willing to give a lot of creative freedom in terms of visual style.

The developer would preferably be coding in ActionScript3 and they must be familiar with all aspects of the Playtomic API or else have their own reliable database solution for user accounts and metric logging.
Assets need to be able to be loaded from my server to facilitate easy content updates (read: not embedded into the binary) and the source needs to be available to me.
It will be in a multi-user environment and run online with no download required (although it would be handy to have a version to sell to the wider public that would include a download – perhaps simply a projected version that users can log in to).
It would be very beneficial for the developers to have a good understanding of music.

If a team is not available to work on this then I’ll likely be hiring an artist and programmer separately. For individuals applying for such a position: ability to work as part of a team and meet deadlines is essential.
My initial budget is $3000 (AUD) for the whole project.
Feel free to get in contact on [email protected] or just respond to the thread, preferably with contact details. Either way, we’ll take it from there.