I don't think it is about dropping. I guess that the funding was only a single payment, because when I asked JCL about updates of Lite-C, he said that it will be updated once in a while, probably within a time frame of a year or so.

http://www.puppenheim.org/
http://www.wuerfels-welt.de
Old Game Tutorial: http://www.puppenheim.org/MITutorial.zip
Free Game Editor: http://puppenheim.org/AlienalsWeihnachtsmann.zip
http://www.puppenheim.org/blender_starting_main_settings.txt