I signed up my new project - The Thought Saved for Last - as one of the candidates to the Indie Dev Grant. I'd be grateful to anyone who'd vote for it in the poll.
The IDG will be about 600-700$ to take in total by the looks of it. Here is what I'd use it for:
http://blog.bundle-in-a-box.com/?p=150
To be able to vote you need to actually get a copy of the new pay-what-you-want Bundle-in-a-Box - the IDG is taken from a part of the bundle's profits:
http://bundle-in-a-box.com/
And the bundle is worth having a look at in itself. It has some truly niche, underground titles (compared to the Humble Bundle), a deep space theme and is supervised by Gnome of Gnome's Lair who most of you should know, as he regularly covers AGS games (also on the Indie Games blog).
There's also another AGS game in the competition (though of course I can't deny I would prefer you'd vote for mine). It's Christopher Columbus is an Idiot by Kurt Kalata - the guy who runs Hardcoregaming101.net and released that cool book guide to adventure games (http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/book.html) a while ago:
http://blog.bundle-in-a-box.com/?p=56
Oh, and the vote ends the coming Friday!
The games in this bundle don't interest me I'm afraid, but never the less this cunning marketing strategy will still get the minimum price out of me in the next couple of days, just so I can vote for you, Mr Hardy :)
Cheers, m0ds. :)
The marketing strategy is cunning, but doesn't prove very successful for IDG, cause barely anyone voted yet. With a measly amount of 50 more votes I could beat that Minecraft style game currently on top of the poll!
The bundle's well worth getting just for Dark Scavenger. It's an excellent, excellent little game.
I didn't play the DRM game yet (although it looks splendid from what I saw), but I know the guy behind it and he's a really good guy, so most worth supporting too.
Teh vote! Good luck :)
Thanks!
Utlimately, didn't win, but was near the top (fourth place). Here's a short Gamescom preview by Adventure Gamers for those curious what they didn't invest in:
http://www.adventuregamers.com/articles/view/22968