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The independent game development community has seen some major success stories in the past few years with small and even one-man teams creating PC games that have been both popular and received critical acclaim. Now a number of the more successful indie game developers are teaming up to create a new source of money for their fellow developers.

The venture is called simple Indie Fund and was established to help "indie developers get financially independent and stay financially independent." The seven backers of the fund include the two man team of 2D Boy, makers of World of Goo and Jonathan Blow, the creator of Braid. Gamasutra has some more info about Indie Fund from its spokesperson Ron Carmel of 2D Boy. More info about the venture will be announced next week at the Game Developers Conference. The first game projects to receive funding from Indie Fund will be announced "soon".