So this amazed me:
Its really cool to see HIGH SCHOOL girls develop games. On top of that, they are all females. This is a huge step for the game development community. I hope this inspires more women to get into programming because it’s not only for men!!
Your redundency is redundent. lol.
Otherwise, yeah, it is pretty cool to see girls in the forfront of game making, but it’s not like they weren’t there before. Amy Hennig wrote for Legacy of Kain, Jak and Daxter and the Uncharted series, all games that I personally love.
Lol did not notice that. Those are my favorite games too!
Women have some pretty high up places in 343 Industries too (Bonnie Ross for example)
Game looks ok-ayyy, but I wish they didn’t have to mention the word girl 33 times in their kickstarter.
Pro-women sexism is still sexism. Why does it matter that they are females? If you wish to truly eliminate the gender gap, you’d treat both genders exactly the same. Not give some mediocre project massive attention because it was made by all girls. Why does it matter that this industry is mainly male? We shouldn’t provide incentives to close a gap, when the gap is created mainly from the lack of interest from the majority of females. If a female wants to be a developer then there isn’t anything standing in their way that others aren’t facing too.
Sorry to go on a somewhat off topic rant.
I get that it’s a bunch of girls, but why does a group of high school student’s need money to make a game?
Suddenly, this story went from “high school girls make a game” to “high school girls raise money to tell someone else to make their game.” Not the precedence I think they were trying to set.
I mentor a few girls that are making game content and having a blast! I would love to see more women in the industry, even here on the Unity forums. I feel rather outnumbered, I must admit. 
According to the internets:
Male Nurses in the workforce = 9.6%
Female Game Devs in the workforce = 11%
Why does it only matter when there are more men in a field???
excuse me while I go raise money to become a registered nurse…
(the last statement is validated by the fact that I’m a guy…)
heh heh. How did I guess their game would feature fairies, princesses and unicorns? 
Well I suppose if girls like those sort of games its good that girls are making them. I’d rather not have to make a game with pink unicorns or my-little-ponies in it. Oh wait… I had to do that for my job. 
Bro I feel for you… Im so sorry
Actually, a few years ago, game companies tried to target girls and most of the games were about puppies, horses, and makeup/dress up. I did not know any young girls who would play those games. My girls play DC Universe, Minecraft, and Star Wars Galaxies. They like puppies and horses, but not as a game. The gaming companies have no idea what girls or women like and oddly when they get it right, like SWG, they don’t seem to understand why and learn nothing from it.
Oddly enough, the only games I know my lady friends to play are GTA. Ponies and puppies? Nah 
Which is one reason it would be nice to get more women in the game industry. I do think there is an entire untapped market out there and I think there are certainly ways to appeal to women gamers, but I don’t think it is through treating women as if they enjoy entirely different genres than men.
Why does it matter that Lucky Strike is toasted?
It doesn’t.
But they were the only ones selling it that way, so it got them the attention they needed to sell more stuff.
Most people on Kickstarter talk first and foremost about how their game idea is awesome. I think it’s a smart move to wear something else up front to get some initial differentiation.
And while I agree that any sexism is sexism, since when is simply announcing the gender of a team sexist in and of itself? If they happen to all be girls then why not tell us? Some people might find that cool or even inspiring, and nobody else should care.
Plus, I think it’s a generally positive thing to promote the concept that game development doesn’t have to be a guy-centric endeavor. You know it, I know it, plenty of people know it… but unfortunately “plenty of people” isn’t “everybody”.
AngryPenguin the reason why they should not emphasize the fact that they are all girls is because that IS sexist. If we truly want equality then we would do what we want, and work in the fields that we want without advertising it. If this was the first ever case of a girl working on a game and there had been some sort of law stating that women could not make games then this would indeed be a “Cool or even inspiring” event, but it is not.
Why only gender equality?
Both men and women from disadvantaged communities are being left out.
Entire countries are being left out.
They didn’t just simply announce it and let it be, they announced it 33 times and made that the selling point of their game, I honestly still have no clue what it’s about other than it’s a girl with a shovel on a quest without any…violence I guess?
This man gets it.
The fact that is a girl only team, is not sexism. At least, I won’t go as far to say that, due to the fact that I don’t know the whole story behind it. If it is by mandate, yes. By coincident, no.
However, as noted in this thread already, the term girl was used 33 times in their campaign. Next, they’ll be telling us that one of the features of the gameplay is that it was made only by girls. They are using their gender, as free attention and therefore possible payment.
I don’t get why this is seen as positive. There was no discrimination laws against women during the technology explosion. There wasn’t any single thing limiting them that every other person wasn’t also facing. They created the gap out of their lack of interest in general, not by limiting laws from their government.
If I replaced the word “girl” with “white male” in their campaign, do you think it would get the same reaction? No. That’s sexism, where gender matters when it shouldn’t.
Question: Does anyone actually have any clue who this money is going to? Is it going to “Girls make games” or to the girls making the game? Because all…the pledges are quite horrible. You don’t get anything in return except a few small things that cost roughly $10 to produce at max, you just…pledge for girl(s) to be sponsored to go to the camp? Huh?
For $200 you get to sponsor a girl…halfway.
Update: It’s now 36 words. Only 6 backers have commented so far but every single one has mentioned their gender…it’s obvious that this was their selling point.
Anyway, this thread doesn’t have long before the extremists on both sides of the fence turn this into a mosh-pit, I can already see the arguments now…“Females will always want more!” “Women are suppressed!” “Misogynist!” etc etc.