That screen capture of the curtain doesn't look bad!
And as for the Developer's grant, I hope you get it! Before you apply for it, perhaps we can get some publicity for your project by way of interviews with game reviewers in which you can talk about the project and your communication with the ol' salts who used to sail the Nautilus in making it as realistic as possible.
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I don't particularly need anything and I don't want to de-rail your thread anymore, though it is now the most active thread in the Indie forum
I will ask Neal if I can create a thread in this forum about a non-Naval game and share a little bit of what I'm working on.