9-Year-Old Girl Raised $21,000 for RPG Project

A 9-year-old girl, Mackenzie Wilson, got a collective support of a Kickstarter campaign that will help her fund her very own role-playing game creation. With the help of her mother, Susan Wilson, the Mackenzie turned to crowdfunding site to raise around $829, enough money to cover her entrance fee to the RPG STEM Camp, a program where kids learn necessary skills to build their own video games. The project on Kickstarter received an enormous funding to the surprised of Mackenzie and her mother. With just one day since the project was posted it has already received more than 10K in funding and right now the project have already received more than $21,692. According to the video posted on Kickstarter, the third grader MacKenzie hopes to build an RPG that's free of inappropriate language and violence and that "allows team memvers to face danger together and get hurt but doesn't kill teammates off and eliminated them from battle." The target of the 9-year-old project was set to cover her entry to an RPG STEM Camp event, taking place at Towson University. It is where she is planning to develop the game, although its not immediately clear in what platform it will be made for. The KickStarter project of MacKenzie Wilson have also got some negative comments among netizens but more and more people were funding the campaign of the girl despite numerous warnings of scam from other internet users. In response to the negative comments the mother of MacKenzie updated the post saying that she will post her family pictures with the projects and the on-going activities of her 9-year-old child. For more information regarding the RPG Projects of MacKenzie just visit the official KickStarter Project.

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