I was about to jump in and tell people to stop jinxing it too... but after checking on the latest activity on his
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I gotta say: it's probably him.
In any case, he must have good reason not to use the old name: maybe he wants to start over, maybe he's the artist of this project and the dev is the one running everything else, maybe it's more of a 50-50 deal, etc.; the thing is that this game is the best one i've seen in a very long time and i'm very excited to keep supporting it.