Just a few days after Dutch game developer 2Awesome Studio had its Kickstarter hopes and dreams crushed by a fraudulent pledge — causing them to lose €7,000 in funding in the final hours of their campaign — things are looking up for the team. The studio relaunched its Kickstarter campaign for shoot 'em up Dimension Drive, and barring any repeated trolling, looks like it might find success this time.

2Awesome Studio's original Kickstarter campaign for Dimension Drive ended last week, thousands of euros short of their €30,000 goal. As the campaign was about to close — at the time, successfully, thanks to a €7,000 contribution — Kickstarter's Integrity Team suspended a fraudulent user's account and took that big chunk of funding with it.

The loss was heartbreaking and, worse, was caught on camera, thanks to 2Awesome's livestream.

Dimension Drive is now back on Kickstarter and, with 29 days left to go in the campaign, has already raised about half of what 2Awesome was seeking.

After Dimension Drive was "trolled" by that one sizable pledge, 2Awesome's David Jimenez told Polygon the developer was "too exhausted" to start from scratch again on Kickstarter. But the developer quickly changed its mind.

"To be honest with you guys, our first reaction was 'no way, we can't go throw all this process again. Not after what happened at the last hours of our campaign,'" the developer wrote in an update on its failed Kickstarter. "The confidence was gone, we were exhausted after those 24h, mentally broken, ... I can't find the right words to describe it, but I think you can have an idea.

"But as the hours were passing by, your support started to change our minds. You guys and your kind and warm words encouraging us to do this one more time. We couldn't let this 'troll' destroy our dream, the project we have been working so hard to make it real. We couldn't let he/she/them win, not only for us, for any indiedev [sic] that could face something similar in the future."

Dimension Drive is a dual-screen vertical shoot 'em up that takes place in "comic book styled sci-fi space opera set in a multidimensional universe." The shmup is expected to come to Linux, Mac and Windows PC in 2015.