After a rough start, some controversy, some hacking, and of course quite a bit of drama, The Fine Young Capitalists reached its funding goal of $65,000 on IndieGogo.

Earlier this year The Fine Young Capitalists started accepting applications for their “Evil Adjacent” project, which is a project to help women get involved in game design and get their first game under their belt. They received some great applications, but in the process took heat from, of all sources, feminist gamers. Notably, The Fine Young Capitalists was shot down by she-who-shall-not-be-named, and because of it, few other gaming blogs or news organizations would pick up the story. Starting in late July/early August, The Fine Young Capitalists had chosen their five finalists and were ready to launch their project. Armed Gamer was one of the few news sources to hear their story (you can hear the first interview with Matthew Rappard from TFYC above).

When the Gamer Gate was first starting, YouTube user InternetAristocrat pointed out a comment left on /r/gaming by Matthew Rappard that launched TFY to the forefront. With all the added attention, The Fine Young Capitalists found help in an unlikely place: 4chan. The rest is summed up in the second interview with Armed Gamer and The Fine Young Capitalists (embedded below), but in short their IndieGogo campaign was hacked, but came back up.

Now, two weeks out from the end of the campaign, they have exceeded funding. According to the TFYC tumblr, all the donations ended up destroying a phone, but that’s neither here nor there. In response to finally reaching their goal, TFYC stated, “We felt both [relieved that it’s funded, but also more pressure than ever]. Relief that we no longer have to worry about reaching our goals, but worry about what is next. This really isn’t the end for TFYC but the beginning. This whole project has shown how difficult it is to get noticed in the Video Games world, and we wand to help other indie developers get the support from the community we did.”

When asked how much support it got from Reddit and 4chan, they responded “The number is always changing, but I think [4chan is] approaching 34k, reddit never got a referal link but at leask 3k of traffic came from their site. We are working to generate their character as we speak.”

If you are interested in voting for a finalist, you can go to The Fine Young Capitalists website and choose which game you’d like to see made. If you wish to donate, check out their IndieGogo campaign. If you want to learn about feminism and The Fine Young Capitalist’s position on it, check out their Tumblr (where else would you go to learn about feminism?) and read some of the great articles there.