I’ll just say, you can get frustrated as much as you want - funding is sparse and there is no short-term solution to it otehr than xgov, its the reality of Algo space atm.
For an example we’ve built one of the biggest and most advanced games on algo and we barely get even recognized by the AF, we struck some luck by John Woods noticing a thread that got lots of exposure, to finally get added to AF ecosystem “gaming” page (after 2+ years) 
As for grants/investments from AF - i can tell you we tried to get eitehr for past year without success…
So as you can see xgov is also our “only” chance to get some funds out of AF. I feel really bad for smaller projects trying to get funds to kickstart their journey, but when i see funds being thrown left and right pretty much aimlessly, especially in defi sector, i can’t in good conscience not apply for xgov myself.
As for gaming, there is no-one at AF in charge of it(they used to have head of gaming, he’s gone now), that should tell you enough about how they value gaming… while there is dozens of literaly “gaming-oriented” chains popping up in EVM space, with grant programs.