pbhawks45

*sigh*. Yup. This is my feeling. Maybe it's not fair for me to get annoyed by it but it is a bummer. It's great that someone really wants to champion female roles in gaming (and even game development) but rehashing this frankly obvious data... not the way to go.

The best defense I can offer up for her is that these videos are made for people who know exactly ZERO about games.

Wait. Actually.. that kind of makes this worse.

Yeah I definitely agree that for $150k one 23 minute movie really doesn't seem like value, I really think she should turn this a series of videos, possibly dozens. That would be the smart thing to do, just one video is really a scam!

It reminds me about that one time that some game company asked for $150k to add one character to a video game. How could it cost that much?! Obviously it's a scam!

Also these videos are so late! Sure it funded way over target but one should always plan for the unexpected, like the game that raise 3.4 million, that was due out in August of 2012 and it's also so late, what a big bunch of scams kickstarter is!!

Can somebody explain to me why it took over $150,000 for what looks like a youtube series in which a woman basically reads facts from Wikipedia? I was expecting some kind of production value at least but, uh, it's kind of just a woman talking into a camera with clips from games showing in the corner.

And she's making ANOTHER PART for the Damsel In Distress trope? I'm sorry but this is very dull stuff. You shouldn't waste ten minutes talking about how Princess Peach was the Damsel in Super Mario Bros, and also in Super Mario Bros 3, and also Super Mario World, and also Super Mario Galaxy, but she wasn't in Super Mario Party but that doesn't matter.

It was a very well done video. She did a great job explaining the history of the trope, and how gaming has used it since the early days. She never spewed any vitriol and presented her proof in a very logical matter.