Memories of this year's Glastonbury linger on - the organised chaos of 100,000 unwashed party people; the stench of toilets so vile even the dung flies gag when they stray near them and plentiful sunburn and cider. What better than for Game Kid to relate his latest idea for a game? It's called Festival...

Things have changed a little since the rose-coloured, bespectacled times of the early '70s, when holding a music festival meant little more than booking Hawkwind for the weekend, giving out free milk, rolling joints and dropping a huge dose of LSD (as Michael Eavis would no doubt tell you, if he could remember). Nowadays such gatherings are semi-respectable, legitimate events, and the logistics, the sums of money and the numbers of people involved in organising just one, are enormous. But having a go at putting on a successful festival is your task in this Theme Park-style game.

A lot of work behind the scenes goes into creating a happy festival - they don't just happen by themselves anymore - so you've got a lot of planning to do if your 'Good Vibes in the Park' gathering isn't going to turn into something resembling a Kosovo refugee camp. If all goes well, though, you'll hopefully avoid the twin hazards of disaster and bankruptcy, make loads of money for 'good causes', and be able to swan off to the Bahamas for six months to prepare for the following year's, even better event. Bearing in mind Festival's motto, 'Make money, not love', here's a sneak preview of how it would work.

Location
As long as there's only one, small picturesque village to annoy you can get away with giving everyone who lives there a ticket. If you choose to have your festival in the middle of Birmingham you're talking about a massive 'free' festival - which is a big risk, but it might work...

Music
There are plenty of bands to choose from on the menu, and you'll have to shell out some big money on at least a few of the decent acts - this simply can't be helped. A couple of medium-sized Brit-pop outfits is normally enough to drag sizeable crowds in; you can pad the rest of the weekend out with Billy Bragg and a bit of dodgy world music.