National Endowment for the Arts issuing game grants

[Shieldage]

The Escapist: News: Games Now Legally Considered an Art Form (in the USA)

To summarize:

The US Federal Government, via the National Endowment for the Arts, has recognized games as an art form. For projects the NEA considers fit to "enhance the public good" they'll be willing to issue grants up to 200K.

Their updated mission statement: "Projects may include high profile multi-part or single television and radio programs (documentaries and dramatic narratives); media created for theatrical release; performance programs; artistic segments for use within an existing series; multi-part webisodes; installations; and interactive games. Short films, five minutes and under, will be considered in packages of three or more."

Lots of red tape are sure to be involved in any application process.


... While this is good news for future projects, possibly including the Exult Studio platform itself, I doubt that 'unofficially' implementing Ultima VII through Exult would be considered... However, I don't see anything lost, other than the time and effort involved, in seeing if they'd offer you a grant to purchase the rights to the original game...

[Shieldage]

FY 2012 ARTS IN MEDIA GUIDELINES

[http://www.nea.gov/grants/apply/AIM/index.html]The Arts in Media[/url]

After all, it could be argued that that your work here is "advancing and preserving" something that'd otherwise be generally neglected...

[Dominus]

The same applies to this http://exult.info/faq.php#exult_donation

[Shieldage]

Figures.

Anyway, good luck