The computer game market is definitely becoming a multi-million dollar endeavor. The days of the computer hermit pounding out code for games in a cabin in Montana would seem to be gone. One platform that may still be available to the individual designing reasonably simple games is Flash. While browsing Bernie's game blogs I found a link to a site called orisinal/>Orisinal that has a collection of Flash games. None of them could be called educational, but they do show some examples of games developed using software that is approachable to the masses.

About the golf game ... If you think that your rules are confusing to novices and find that arguments are breaking out while playing the game, then you must have developed the most realistic golf board game ever. I lost a good deal of my youth to the game. I've been "golf sober" for over ten years!