A more effective way to obscure his involvement, at least in the short to medium term, would be to not mention it at all, or include it under a pseudonym. Being the last name on a list is almost as eye-catching as being the first, to my mind – and, ultimately, people did notice. The suggestion being made is that this was a deliberate bid to try and obscure Adam’s involvement, though to be honest I’m in two minds about that. Some have pointed out that in marketing e-mails sent out before the campaign, Adam’s name was not mentioned, and argued that the arrangement of the list of contributors on the Kickstarter page was a little sneaky: it’s done in reverse alphabetical order of contributor’s first name, not surname, which is a weird way to arrange such a list (alphabetising in the conventional order is more normal, alphabetising on the basis of surname is more usual) unless the point is to put someone whose name is “Adam” at the bottom of the list. There are some further wrinkles which may come up in whatever report on this has prompted your curiosity about this, which I may as well address. Luke cancels the project hours after it opened.A non-zero number of those other contributors say “Wait, Adam Koebel is contributing to this?” and yank their contributions.People ask Luke and other contributors about this.People remember that Adam did a really shitty thing on a livestream a while back, and followed it up with apologies which many felt didn’t ring true or came across as somewhat self-centred.People notice that Adam Koebel is listed as one of the contributors to the project.So far as I can tell, the sequence of events is this: But I figure since “Luke Crane Kickstarter controversy” might be a common search term in the near future, I’d throw up my view on what’s currently going on so people who make their way to these parts as a result of that needn’t feel like their time was wholly wasted. I have not backed The Perfect RPG because Luke Crane has made it clear he doesn’t want my money, and I’m happy to go with that. It’s a neat idea, but it’s kicked off more controversy. Now Luke Crane is running his Perfect RPG Kickstarter, a little zine of fun little micro-RPGs based around a droll little joke “Perfect RPG” concept. It didn’t end well, for reasons I have outlined elsewhere. Update : Luke Crane has now left Kickstarter.Ī while ago I backed a Luke Crane project on Kickstarter.