It appears that Alex Willis, and his company Man Made Games is, as Don would put it, having 3 successful failures on KS. Many of the new members may not know that Alex was a very active member here for a while. He was in on many conversations about cost for doing KS projects, and was aware his goals were low. His plan was to make the money up on the backside. I truly don't think his projects were scams to start with. I think it became a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul. I hope he finds a way to make things right.
Yes there are some crooks on KS, but I think in most cases, designers just don't anticipate how much money it truly costs. To all designers- if you can't meet full funding- then maybe your design is not good enough. Take your ego out of it. Go back to the drawing board, and make it better.