Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa seems easy to make

After playing the demo of Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa, I mentioned to a Garage Game employee, Matt Langley, over at my forum, that everything in that game seems to be in the RTS Starter Kit except the AI which can be done with what users have posted for peon harvesting management. That is, seek out the nearest resource of a certain time, and go to it.

I then stated my belief that any experienced user, could therefor make it in a single day, working alone, since it is a rather simple game from a programmer's standpoint. This does not include the artwork, of course.

Here are all the aspects of the game, and how I believe they could easily be done. Tell me what you think, and if there is something more complicated that I'm not seeing.

The camera and terrain are already done, straight from the starter kit.

Buttons.
In the starter kit example, there is a button already there which bears the image of a building, and you can click it, and then the location of where you want a building to be placed.

In this game you do the exact same thing, only there are animals and plants to place around the map, instead of buildings.

So, you just look at that code, and copy it to make a button for each organism you can create. Where it list the address to the image of the building, you change it to where the new image is at, and thus you have a proper looking button. Also, where it links to the model of the building to load, you then set it to proper location of where your new models of plants and animals are at.

You now have it where you can select something, and put it on the map, it then appearing.

Rather simple to implement I would think.

Or instead of the building code, perhaps one would look at the example someone made about peons havesting things, since the animals at least would share their AI.

Animal AI same as peasants seeking out resources to harvest
Each animal has its prefered food source, be it a plant, or another animal. They seek out the nearest resource from their location, and move towards it, then harvest it until they have reached their carrying limit. After they have all the food they need, they seek out the other desired resource, this being water. They move to it, harvest until they can hold no more, and then the cycle repeats.

The display
There is also the display which shows an icon for each animal, along with a number of how many of those types of animals there are. You have that done with the soldiers in the RTS Starter Kit, so you just change where on the screen its drawn at, no major programming feet there.

That is basically all there is to that game.

Making a more complicated RTS would take far more time of course, however for something so simple, it shouldn't take any time at all once you are familiar with things. I'm still looking through tutorials, and trying to get everything set up now, but feel confident its a simple type of game I could make in the foreseeable future.

So, what does everyone think? Do you agree that making such a game should be very simple for any that have the RTS Starter Kit, or like Matt Langley keeps telling me, does it require a team of people working a considerable amount of time to accomplish?