Interest free loan, I think is okay, if you have a portfolio that can back up your promise. To make my argument much easier to chew, let's make a hypothetical situation that instead of Splinter Royale asking for the said funds for investment, it was actually Nintendo. Not a fake Nintendo company but the REAL Nintendo, in a kind-of collab scenario.

So, DAO would be producing the $50k and Nintendo would be willing to develop a Splinterlands mobile game called Splinter Royale, which is like Super Smash bros but with Splinterlands element like characters, rules, elements and other stuff. You will be creating your own team of 6 up to the allowed mana and you will fight in a side scrolling battle.

EVEN IF you don't see DAO getting back any $ from that investment, since the name "NINTENDO" is creating it and people know they've made good games, I think DAO and the community will agree and pass that proposal.

I think SplinterRoyale is selling off their possible game in the same concept that people will be willing to play it but the clear difference between their name and Nintendo, as a company, is that Nintendo's name has merits. And people would be willing to put money in order to be in their games or them making other's games.