On Broken Phones and Meeting Goals
The Fine Young Capitalists has raised over $65,000 meeting our goal to make a game for one woman. Thank you everyone for everything.
So apparently, when you break the fixed funding value on Indiegogo, they send in each Paypal donation one at a time. This caused my phone to vibrate continuously for almost an hour before the motor gave up. But before we mourn for the one injured member of the project we’d like to thank everyone.
Unfortunately, we were all surprised when we went over the goal today, Samantha is at her day job helping teach people with disabilities how to use computers, and Autobotika is extremely excited but is just finishing up a deadline and Matt is still camera shy.
But we’d still like to provide a list of thank yous to everyone that helped out while preparing a video thank you.
We’d like to thank skepchick.org for being the first major feminist website to cover the game design contest. Their small link provided the majority of our starting traffic.
We’d like to thank http://armedgamer.com/ for doing the very few review of the project before we were even taking funds. His help was really important and he helped Matt get through his first interview.
We’d like to thank Internet Aristocrat for getting the word out about the production. Although it wasn’t the best situation his traffic really started the ball going.
We’d like to thank @AdamBaldwin for supporting us, and our mission as well as all of #GamerGate, and for being great on television. Keep making it so, I can keep watching it.
We’d like to thank http://www.cinemablend.com/ for getting the word out multiple times, especially during the darker parts of the campaign. You guys have been great.
We’d like to thank the Cliqist for writting not one, not two but three very fair articles on the entire process and they’ve been incredibly helpful.
We’d like to thank http://apgnation.com/ for hosting an article about us and our project that brought us great traffic.
We’d like to thank @Totalbiscuit and @Boogie2988 for their support in tweeting about our cause. Those gestures are really important for getting our voice out there.
We’d like to thank every podcaster who did an interview with us. From Honey Badger Brigade to Nerd to the Third Power it all helped and discussing the project with people helped to set up the situation.
We’d like to thank Hyraphax who has been handling the Twitch and the Streaming, which is vitally important when an old guy is trying to get thing working. He’s been great throughout this entire production.
We’d like to thank Press Fart To Continue for hosting our story as well as the 4 hours streamathon when the site went down.
But most of all we’d like to thank /v/, 4chan, and Vivian James who throughout the entire campaign have been nothing but supportive. This is your victory as much as ours and we thank you for it. People wouldn’t have heard about us without your efforts, and this project would not be possible without your contributions.
And last of all we’d like to thank everyone that was so angry about this project. Without your continual anger, there wouldn’t be new information to keep the conversation flowing and interesting. Without you, we would have been forgotten.
If we missed anyone, I’m sorry, we are overwhelmed and determining what to do next. You can still vote at http://www.thefineyoungcapitalists.com/Voting to determine your best game.
