New crowdfunding initiative for indie devs from Desura

Well this is interesting. Desura, the indie/Mod digital download website from the guys behind MODDB have started up what they are calling an Alphafunding initiative. It will act in a similar way to Kickstarter but will run entirely through Desura and allow indie devs to get funding in return for delivering early builds of thier game to customers, in a similar way to Minecraft but with all the money and technical side looked after by a third party.
They already have five games ready to launch with the initiative but they are careful to say that not all games would fit this model. Sounds interesting, especially since Kickstarter is limited to US only (or at least it was the last time I checked).