Dimension Drive Kickstarter Ruined by Funding Troll
Bohs Hansen / 10 years ago
Being an independent developer and creating your own game worthy of release is hard enough and getting it all out is even harder. Thanks to Kickstarter and similar crowdfunding pages the whole thing got a lot easier as you can sell your idea for funding – that is unless you get trolled at the last minute.
That is what happened to the indie developers 2Awesome Studios that are behind the game Dimension Drive, a comic book styled space adventure with a really interesting-sounding teleport mechanic, which has players battling in two worlds at once.
When the funding was about to close, 2Awesome Studios were short €7000 and that is when what appeared to be a hero stepped in and pledged the remaining funds by himself. Needless to say, the developers were excited and went onto Twitter to thank the person.
Who is Jonathan, Jonathan is our hero! We love you and we want to meet you in person!
THANK YOU
7000k in a single pledge! #DimensionDrive
— 2Awesome Studio (@2AwesomeStudio) May 13, 2015
The joy didn’t last long as Kickstarter soon informed them that the pledge was fraudulent and had been removed again.
We've just been informed by Kickstarter that the 7K euro pledge was fraudulent. Somebody played with our dreams. Sorry for the confussion 🙁
— 2Awesome Studio (@2AwesomeStudio) May 13, 2015
With too little time left for other backers to enter and pick up the pieces and make this game come true, the funding failed.
Somebody pledge 7k to our Kickstarter just to be taken a way in the last moment. Trolling our end of #Kickstarter. Funded and it's gone
— 2Awesome Studio (@2AwesomeStudio) May 13, 2015
The developers were just as crushed as their dreams.
“Honestly speaking it has been an exhausting month for us. We have been working really hard to make our campaign a success, and right now we are speechless, demoralized, you name it.”
Don't know what to do now, mentally devastated 🙁 Don't know what to do now#gamedev #indiedev https://t.co/b9lROaQQvz
— 2Awesome Studio (@2AwesomeStudio) May 13, 2015
I hope they’ll find another way to get their game off the ground as it looks really interesting and fun. I also hope that Karma will catch up with the fraudster.
