I apologize for the delay in posting this. As I may have mentioned, Operation : TCB (Phase Two) experienced an unexpected deadline acceleration that didn’t let up until last night.

Now, on to the main business : Announcing the recipient of A Terrible Grant.

This was not an easy selection process. I received a number of excellent proposals, from people ranging from “Promising Upstart” to “Old War Horse.” In the end I selected the proposal which was submitted by VSCA Publishing (you may have heard of one of their games)

I selected the proposal from VSCA Publishing for three main reasons. Chief among these reasons is that their proposal drew the clearest picture for how they would make use of the whole CS5 package, rather than one or two applications. The second reason is that they sold me on their ability to use their development process to take a game from concept to release. The third reason was that they were able to deliver Diaspora without access to what I would call cutting edge tools – I really want to see what they can do with CS5.

I want to thank everyone for their interest in A Terrible Grant. All the applicants have been gracious, and I hope to hear great things from all of them on their projects. It’s been a Terribly Interesting Thing for me, and I’m certainly glad I did it. I’m going to be checking in on the VSCA Publishing guys from time to time, and reporting on their progress here, so stay tuned!