FAR Colony (First Autonomous Remote Colony) is "a game of exploration and space colonization being held in the 23th century". An 8 bit funding page was created [announcement] for it recently. The target is $800 in 109 days. A note at the bottom says:
Of course this project will continue to progress even if my goals aren't reached, it will be more slowly and limited without but will stay alive !This makes me wonder: how to motivate donations towards open source games (besides making a good game ;) ).
Kambi (VRML) Engine has introduced a fundry.com page for project pledges, feature pledges and donations [announcement]. Fundry.com looks interesting and like an easy way to play the 'donation game', a concept I talked about long ago. Fundry currently accepts paypal only.
The only other open source game project to use fundry.com is the Construct SDK. Fundry has no API yet and writes "Contact us to let us know how you would use it." I think perhaps a Trac integration should be neat..
On a related note: sound specialists can earn $200 on this swamp sound task for Wesnoth.