Nordic Game Program Reveals New Round Of Game Grants

The Nordic Game Program has chosen its second round of grantees for 2010, planning to distribute 3 million DKK ($532,917) among seven winning indie developers. The recent round saw a total 136 entries, and the chosen funding recipients were announced last night. Prominent among them is Sweden's Erik Svedang, creator of 2009 Independent Games Festival-winning title Blueberry Garden. This time, Svedang earns DKK 600,000 for else { Heart.break }, described as "a philosophical adventure for PC/Mac set in a place where bits have replaced atoms." Other winning developers include Locatify, Snow Castle, Traplight, Image & Form Internatioonal, Copenhagen Game Productions and Sarepta Studio. This most recent funding round saw a record number of applicants for the program, which has repeatedly warned it won't have the funds to support the unprecedented number of funding requests it has been receiving. Partially responsible for the massive flood of new interest in the program this year has been the critical and commercial success of one of its last grantees: PlayDead's shadowy Xbox Live Arcade adventure-puzzle Limbo. Started in 2006 by a collaboration of the five Nordic ministers of culture, the Nordic Game Program is currently set to run through 2012. Interested parties can find further information at the program's official website.