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🕑 Added 2018-01-10 08:01:22 +0000 UTC Once you have watched this video......This interview will make a lot more sense :)
Below is my interview with Molly the owner of the Kickstarter campaign KATALYKA.
Before reading I should explain that after messaging her and not getting a response for a few days I randomly got a reply just as I was leaving for work. The only reason I tell you this is because I wanted to keep the chat 100% unedited.
The spelling and grammar is not my best!
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Hey Molly
Is it OK, to talk to you about Katalyka?
My name is Daniel Ibbertson and I create a series on YouTube about failed Kick-Starters
I would love to hear what the latest is with your projcect
Thank you for your time
Katalyka wouldnt be a good game for your series, as it was completed and finshed copies have been sent to many of the backers.
I was happy with the game, but I felt like I could design something better, for a younger audience, using what I learned from Katalyka and streamlining it into a more fun game with a better theme. so I made Eternal War of the Candy Realms.
The art is more pleasing, the same is a lot smaller and compact, with less parts and faster paced.
I play tested it and am taking some time off of it so when I come back to it in a few months I will have a fresh perspective
I don't think I am going to kickstart it, as I felt too attacked and harassed by racist and sexist blacks who apparently can't handle a woman with opinions and ideas.
Thank you so much for getting back in touch Molly.
I will be making the episode still. But it will focus on the whole story instead
How many more copies of katalyka do you need to send out? Do you have an update on when the remaining backers will get their copies
Can't afford to send more, they came out a lot heavier than expected, and cost about $20 each to mail.
I was hoping to eventually and send out about a dozen more, and then send Eternal War of Candy Realms to the last few.
Would you send out katalyka to your backers if they paid the remaining $20? I think they would really like that
Do you think there's anything i can do that won't be criticized or made fun of?
I mean i was basically betrayed and treated like shit
You think i have any motivation to do anything for anyone as this point?
I made the game the way i wad told to.
And then after the kickstarter made its goal, c.o. turned on me and started attacking me with all sorts of bullshit, as I've already documented.
No one sided with me or tried to help work it out
It was just endless streams of people who didn't even buy the game attacking me and harassing me, for what? Wanting equality as a female but trusting to cut my dick off?
Refusing to cut
Not trusting
I believe gender is fucked up and i refuse to accept that males have to serve females or be failed.
I refuse to accept that seeking gender equality with females is something anyone should be shamed over
Im not going to cut my sex organs off, and im not going to accept becoming someone's husband
Im going to continue living the way i feel.
Im tired of being targeted by this crap since i started getting known in steampunk
Well to start i will say that even though there are places on the internet that did make fun of you. From what i can tell in the comments of your kickstarter your backers did not.
You said some pretty unexpected things. I'm not saying what happened wasnt true. But its unbelievable to pretty much everyone.
From what i can tell your backers offered help and advice to not only get the game finished but to also help you in your time of need
So my opinion to start with i suggest sending out those remaining copies. How many more you got left to send?
Don't be a tool of white on white hate.
Im not gay, a trans person, or a cross dresser.
I am female despite having a birth certificate that claims otherwise.
I am what a white person should be able to look like
Molly, please read what i have written above. I am not talking about anything other than you board game
Im done with being set up.
Guess were done then
If you think my rejection of sex organ gender isn't part of this, then you are missing the context for the entire thing
Molly
Im not sure how we have got to this point
I have not said anything about your sexual identitification at all
All i am talking about is your game
The material taught me things that break most people
I can't ignore that, sorry.
But like i said above all of your backers (the people that paid you to have a copy of your game) treated you with nothing but tespect
Most of them were nice about it
In that case dont you think you should send out the remaining copies
I d love to, but I'm living under the poverty level
I have $750 a month to live on. Almost all of that goes to rent and food
Ok, in that case. How about going to kickstarter and updating your backers on your current situation?
The worst thing you can do is nothing
I dont have any money to send out anything
No one cares.
I promise you that they do
No one seemef to give shit about the ones id already sent
From what i could tell there was a lot of confusion on how to finish the game.
Regardless, even if the game isn't very good. Your backers still decided to back it and thats not what they are upset about.
Its not that the game may be "bad" its that they paid money and most of them got nothing in return
If you want my advice. Go to kickstarter. Create a new update and explain your financial situation.
Explain that its unfortunate but you do not have money to send out the final copies or to give refunds.
Apologise
And finally give the backers the downloadable print and play version once again
Yup life has proven to me its very mean and abusive. Sucks huh?
Molly, However you decide to end kickstarter is up to you. If you don't feel you can continue. Then your backers that paid you money deserve to at least know that.
Why?
Because they paid you money and believed in you.
Plus, on top of this when things started going bad for you. They stuck by you and gave friendly advice
Wow i guess im just a villain in addition to being a failure, despite diligently putting more of a effort than i was paid to do.
All i am saying is to give an update. Its the least you can do.
It doesnt cost anything and the last update you got said that everyone will get 2 games.
Nope im a terrible person and a failure, yay for your exciting content
Under the assumption that the second was a success.. which it has not yet been
You know what i wrote
I carefully worded it, like everything i write
Im not saying your a terrible person.
Molly.
I want to create a video that explains what happened
I feel pretty crappy about Katalyka
I am giving you the opportuinity to explain what happened and what you plan to do
Im dont have the money to redeem my self completely, and the lack of any positive response to the ones i sent already has left ne with zero motivation
I succeeded at designing the game, i failed at the printing of it to my desires, and at delivering them all. And after the crap I've been thru since then, i have no motivation to give it any more attention
I understand
The whole intention here was to get your side of the story
I dont LIKE that is where im at, but i don't see anyb other options, and i don't like disappointing people so i dread saying any more to them and even reminding them that i exist.
My life has no value any more
i have nothing to gain from doing ANYTHING.
There is never going to be a time where my desire to work and make things people enjoy will be and welcomed , which is all i wanted when i was younger and making art
I understand. My opinion still stands. These backers have paid money and treated you with respect. And the last update suggests that they still will get the game/s.
1 update closing the whole thing will at least give closure
No such thing
No such thing?
I grew up doing what i was told to, and then i was betrayed, abused, and discarded, so until my need for closure is satisfied, i feel zero motivation to anyone.
Ok.
Its your choice Molly
,i worked my ass off and was honest as i could be. And screwed over for it.
But not by your backers
Im extremely unhappy with this entire situation
Molly, i think its best we end it here.
I really hope you get the help you need and i wish you all the best
Is there anything you would like to say to your backers / viewers of my video?
Comments
I'm finding this very weirdly reminiscent of what happened with the Pictures For Sad Children kickstarter.
You're a fucking idiot.
Luke
Yep. People like this have been pushing into the world consciousness with their interpersonal self-hatred and drawing out the pity of everyone else around them. They live on the pity (like vampires) and it keeps them in their perpetual (self created) victimhood frame of mind. These people are known, collectively, as Libtards and they will never know they were the main reason Trump was elected as President. Their whiny (self abusing) voices will ensure he will get elected again next time too. Don’t pander to Libtards, state facts and realities firmly and they will retreat to their crying corners (safe spaces). Eventually there is hope they may grow up but not if you pity them or pay them ANY attention.
Jolly Jackalope
Yep, shes gone completely off the deep end. Sounds like a mix of an already present mental illness being egged on by social justice. Hopefully she actually gets real help and stops going on the internet for a while. Its probably whats best for her.
Is her DeviantArt page archived on the Wayback Machine or something like that? Here print and play version might be retrievable that way.
A rather surreal end to a Kickstarter for sure. In any case, even if Molly never updates the backers, hopefully they'll find the closure in this video.
Slope's Game Room
Pretty full on... she made a big mistake that day :S
Slope's Game Room
Yes, Sadly I do think it is unlikely :(
Slope's Game Room
Did you see at the top, the video is available to Patreons already
Whoa that was a trip. Definitely looking forward to the video. Good on you for attempting to get both sides!
TildaTea
oh yay Livejournal! This thing still exists? And wow her response about the cane commission. Just... wooooow...
TildaTea
Well... the video was interesting and felt for Molly and her backers but then read the interview and was blown away. I suffer with mental health issues and even in the UK it's bloody tough to get help. I cannot imagine what it's like for her. But geeeezzz... that was one wild ride of an interview. All I can say is she has a boadload of issues. I'd like to hope she gets help but same time thing it's unlikely.
Slope's Game Room
Yes, quite the bizarre Kick-Starter for sure!
Slope's Game Room
Thanks for the link, I actually found this last night. I will defo add it to the descriptions. Cheers buddy
BlitzHedgie
Actually, looking into it further I wonder if there is some intention to her actions? Look here: <a href="https://artists-beware.livejournal.com/622758.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://artists-beware.livejournal.com/622758.html</a>
BlitzHedgie
Well that was certainly an adventure! I do hope she gets the help she needs. It’s clear she didn’t mean any wrong-doing, but her current circumstances are putting her in some bad places.
