So we sold about 27 posters. Which in one case is really cool but in a more accurate case, did not cover the cost of creating the posters, printing them and purchasing the Shopify account. All in all we made exactly $50 bucks, which we are using to purchase a framed poster of Lizzy as Zelda to ship to her. We are going to write an email to her so we can get her physical address, something that we find vaguely ironic, as her reason for leaving GamerGate was that information was placed online. We will be still selling posters for the next weeks so feel free to purchase them at

http://the-fine-young-capitalists.myshopify.com/

And the funds will go into the scholarship fund for next year. Apply at

http://www.thefineyoungcapitalists.com/Scholarship

I feel that the reason for the poor sales is of course out fault. It’s difficult to promote these kind of things, and even with awesome designers, it’s hard to attract attention, especially if you don’t want to engage in the normal sort of E-Drama.

We’ll contact the design idea winners privately and work out how we can illustrate design for them for a smaller cost.

As for the rest of it…



When we started the women in game design project what we really wanted to do was two things.

1.) Get women more involved in game design.

2.) Show that the gaming community wanted to support them.

Everyone feels that we have accomplished that goal.

But Matt literally wanted to work on the project with the goal that he just handles the money, and the planning and not have to deal with the public. So far he’s had not one, not two, but three writers from top online publications call him a scam artist, he got death threats, and multiple people from an Online Anti-Harassment Task force have openly attacked him.

All of this was expected; in point of fact we had multiple meeting on the topic before we even started the Indiegogo. This is why Lola is the only person in the video, and why Heather presented the project. But none of that really matters and Matt was the person who made the comment on the Reddit and now it’s “his” project for some reason, despite the fact he is nether getting paid or directing the production.

The fact that no one is talking to Lola or Danielle shows the deep sexism that is present in the gaming issue. And the fact that the supposed moral majority in the gaming press hasn’t contacted them for their side of the story further expresses that point.

A man by the name of John Bain once said that the best thing for people that were interested in improving the gaming climate was to not focus on Internet celebrity drama. And it’s with that comment in mind that we will be moving our webpage TheFineYoungCapitalists.com to focus on the scholarship fund in the next couple days and not Afterlife Empire

Afterlifeempire.com will be hosting the majority of the updates on the project. And you can contact support@thefineyoungcapitalists.com or support@afterlifeempire.com if you have any question on how the money is being spent. But for the good of Danielle and Lola we feel we should separate the two projects.

In the end no one cares about the drama involved in creating the game, and everyone cares that the project actually be delivered. We feel dealing with the E-Drama and these smaller projects distract us from that goal.

We’ll update people sporadically on how the game is going Via Twitter and Tumblr but I don’t think we’ll be dealing with anymore of this E-Drama. Which includes not making silly post to gather attention.

It will be interesting to see how that works for us. I think it will make it more difficult for us to get through Greenlight in the future. But in the end all we did was give women the tool to present their ideas and rely on the Gamer community to support us in creating them.

Thanks for that Gamers, but to make you proud, we really have to stop following the endless drama that is Gamergate and actually finish the game that you paid for.