A Kickstarter project hoping to raise money to send a nine-year-old girl to programming camp has ignited a massive storm of anger in the online gaming community.
The inspring story of a Kickstarter project for a little girl who wanted to raise money to go to programming camp made a pretty decent splash over the weekend:
Via: kickstarter.com
Cnet's Eric Mack picked up the project on Friday:
If the thought if a young girl playing a first-person shooter like Borderlands isn't exactly the slice of contemporary Americana family life you're comfortable with, don't worry, Mackenzie gets it. In fact, she says that's part of the reason she wants to learn to make her own games.
Business Insider covered the story on Saturday:
After just one day, Mackenzie has already raised $11,471 from 650 backers, surpassing her goal by a longshot.
Since Mackenzie is only nine and therefore not legally able to have a project on Kickstarter, the project is under her mother Susan Wilson's name.
As did The Next Web:
Run under her mother Susan's name since Mackenzie is under the age of 18, the Stevensville, MD-based third-grader was seeking a mere $829 to build a role playing game (RPG) "for kids like me", and prove to her 15- and 16-year-old brothers what she can do.
But, after just one day, the project has eclipsed $10,000 ($11,214 at the time of writing) in backing thanks to more than 600 backers.
However, it's also generated a pretty massive controversy in the gaming world. And members of Reddit's r/Gaming are now calling it a scam:
Susan Wilson, Mackenzie's mother, is also Susan Wilson, millionaire and former CEO of a debt-collecting firm:
