I would love it if this were real but I have this nagging feeling in me that tells me that this is just an attempt to exploit the romantics in us... I do hope it really is a kid trying to raise money to create a game.
9 Year-Old Raising Money to Attend RPG Camp
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#12I hate it when an adult writes content as if they were their child. It's pretty obvious that this is being written and organized entirely by the mom, and I'm guessing the kid has minimal involvement besides wanting to go to camp and wanting to make a video game. It's great that the kid wants to make games, but having the mom "pretending" to be the kid just rubs me the wrong way.
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#13How come her rogue has 16 int and a +5 modifier? This smells fishy. She also added her whole ability score instead of her ability modifier to her saves. I don't know if I can't trust her with my money if she can't fill a character sheet properly.
(Mackenzie , if you read this, I'm just joking. But as your kickstarter shows, you know exactly the best way to take a joke)
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#14This is absolutely fantastic. I don't know if she'll succeed in building the game or not but just having the motivation at such an early age is awesome.
A question: "In case it's not already clear, I'm not a girlie girl." Assuming mom did not put this in, it's sad, but of course very common, to see the dichotomy "girlie girl"/"techie girl". And this has little to do with gender either, we also have "nerd"/"jock". Why do people like Elle Woods exist only in fiction?
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#15Looks like a free advertising stunt for RPG Maker. I'm very weary of this.
This paragraph:
I play games on my computer, PS3 and KindleHD all the time and it's fun but I REALLY WANT to create my own games to play. Ultimately I want to learn to program really cool stuff, but since I'm 9 I'm starting with RPG Maker because it lets me create something awesome without having to know how to actually program everything. I'll learn to program more as I get older, but right now, RPG Maker's drag & drop functionality makes it pretty easy for me to create working RPG games quickly.
Kids don't talk like that. They don't announce their limitations and justify them with their age (since I'm 9...). The rest of the paragraph is almost insulting and straight out of a lame commercial. And there is a big RPG Maker screenshot just below this.
Millions of middle-class suburban kids go to summer camps that cost $1,000+ every year and their parents don't petition the internet for the tuition. This family doesn't seem poor. I think they could come up with it without posting an ad on Kickstarter for RPG Maker.
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#16There's something very awkward about all this. People criticizing this here, people who will criticize the game (expectations). The huge amount of money raised for her age (she really shouldn't have got that much money). The text written by her mother...
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#17How is this a Kickstarter project? Not only is this not the writing of the 9 year old daughter as echoed by the comments here, but if your kid wants to go do something like this then it's up to the parents to make it happen. And not through handouts.
And if it comes down to affordability - there's plenty of resources on the internet that will teach you this stuff anyway for free that someone who's actually motivated would indulge in. You can build an RPG without the holiday, which would ultimately be better anyway as self-guided learning is an important skill for any developer.
So please don't abuse kickstarter. Do go out and make full use of Google and the developer community who'll be more than happy to offer guidance for your daughter.
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#18She's not exactly a struggling mother who needs the money to make her child's dream come true. She could probably stretch to a laptop or even a 100 of them. Is this meant to be educational? For whom? There are quite a few projects by people who do actually need the money to have a chance for their dreams to come true.
Well, some people just like money. I don't think you'll be able to find another justification sadly. Not sure how come she raised 7k.
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#19Looks like a free advertising stunt for RPG Maker. I'm very weary of this. This paragraph: I play games on my computer, PS3 and KindleHD all the time and it's fun but I REALLY WANT to create my own games to play. Ultimately I want to learn to program really cool stuff, but since I'm 9 I'm starting with RPG Maker because it lets me create something awesome without having to know how to actually program everything. I'l…
I assume the text on the Kickstarter page is written by her mother - she used the first-person viewpoint to enhance the narrative. You can read the same paragraph with a 3rd person viewpoint and it makes more sense ("since she's 9 she's starting with RPG maker...").
Regarding your second point: It would be a great move by the parents to donate most of the pledges to a charity for kids'/women's/STEM education. I don't know what Kickstarter's stance on this would be though.
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#20There's something very awkward about all this. People criticizing this here, people who will criticize the game (expectations). The huge amount of money raised for her age (she really shouldn't have got that much money). The text written by her mother...
Also the very professional looking video.
I'm all for getting 9 year olds into coding but I would've liked to have seen any funds raised above the target go towards paying for other kids to attend the camp.