A group of Dutch developers has started a new fund to help finance games made in the Netherlands.
Midgame Fund is now taking pitches, with a view to making investments between €10,000 and €150,000 in Dutch video game projects.
According to Adriaan de Jongh, one of the co-founders of the fund and the designer behind the acclaimed Hidden Folks, Midgame's objective is to create a more sustainable and diverse ecosystem in the Netherlands -- a prolific country for development, but one that is too reliant on foreign investment.
"I think that is a missed opportunity," he said in a statement. "An investor who's overcome the challenges of making games in the same country as a developer could be invaluable to that developer.