Do you have any women on staff?

So basically what is going on is...

We have a mandate to get women involved in technology companies.

Using that mandate we got funds so that we could basically create 5 pitches for 5 women for video games (These fund have already been requisitioned.)

We created a contest where any woman could come up with an idea for a game (The idea would be licensed under Creative Commons), we would choose the 5 best ideas and then get concept artists to visualize them (These aritst are in a developing country and are being paid for their work.) We'd put those "pitches" and people would vote on them. The one with the most votes would go into crowdfunding with a game development studio (We already have the studio and we have worked up a budget) and people could donate money to make the game. The studio would make the woman's game, the profits for the game would then go to charity. If we didn't raise enough money then she could keep the pitch and do what she wants with it.

The other 4 women get to keep their pitch and do whatever they want with it.

All we have got is negative feedback from the female game community.

We don't know why, we think it's the name, but we find it hard to deal with the female game community.

Any help would be apperciated. English is not our first language.

What is the name? Can you paste some examples of negative feedback, or are they private? Also, I'd love to participate in a contest like this. Where have you been advertising your contest? The best place I can think of would be DeviantArt, banner ads in places like Kongregate, and banner ads in browser-based games and social gaming sites that have a high percentage of female players.

Edit: It occurred to me that the name you were referring to was probably the name of your account here. If so then yes, I agree that people probably don't like it. Personally I'm a socialist, I hate capitalism and would never self-identify as a capitalist. Aside from my personal views, capitalists have a stereotype of being heartless and greedy, which conflicts with information on your website about contributions to charity and supporting minorities, and the stereotype of "heartless" is going to be even less popular with women than with men. Also, your subtitle on your website is "evil adjacent"??? And the red/orange color chosen for the website is rather aggressive and combative. Except for the charity stuff, you've created a hostile image which few female gamers will be happy or comfortable to identify with. As a group, you should probably evaluate and rethink what you want your group's image to be. (I do like the eyes with the star and the stencil font, though.)

I'm not very fond of the idea submission form and instructions either, but that's a different issue, has nothing to do with image.

Lenin cat disapproves of your contest

Those women giving negative feedback might feel similar to me that this kind of project that you promote isn't helpful in their sense (though I'm not a woman, so I'm only guessing -- I might as well be guessing wrong here!).

Women -- the ones I know, at least -- can very well compete in a "normal" work environment with other women and men. They do not need and do not want "special treatment" and would find being called an "underutilized minority" offensive.

While it is true that there still exists an undeniable discrimination against women especially in, but not limited to, technical jobs (for example, a woman still has to work much harder than a man to get the same payment and title), having women play "in their own, separate league" doesn't bring them forward. On the contrary, by doing so, you are in some way implying that they're not as good as the others.

This part I'd actually disagree with. Because game development is a group process, and almost every group developing a game idea is more than 50% male, plus having a disproportionate number of female staff in positions like staff artist that don't get to make financial or design decisions, this creates a strong selection bias in favor of producing game ideas that appeal mostly to men and don't necessarily appeal to women very much. There aren't very many female designers to start with, and the ones there are tend to generate ideas that appeal more to women and less to men when compared to idea produced by male designers. So basically, a game development company that is 60% or more male is unlikely to ever produce an idea by a female designer. It's not about prejudice or bigotry at all, it's just about the fact that men are statistically more likely to like ideas generated by men and statistically less likely to like ideas generated by women.

The one thing I really like about this contest is that it its trying to supply help at exactly the right step of the process - getting a female-generated game idea into development. There's not a who lot of detail about how the ideas will be judged though. It would defeat the point if the winning idea turned out to be a clone of some existing masculine game, chosen because it appealed the most to a group of gamers that was more than 60% male (i.e. random people from the internet who want to vote on which game idea gets produced).