01 STEP
Treat the East and South as the most directly translatable realms, since each maps almost one-to-one onto its source game.
Alan Hazelden
Credited in the store description
DOSSIER
What this entry covers
Alan Hazelden contributed the two design foundations that became the East and the South: Mirror Isles, a top-down game about swapping places with reflections across islands, and Skipping Stones to Lonely Homes, a serene puzzle game about throwing stones into water to create stepping paths.
PROTOCOL CHAIN
How to work this entry
02 STEP
Expect his mechanics to be pure spatial logic with no resource management attached.
03 STEP
Look for the shared trait: both of his games are about creating or changing where you can stand.
04 STEP
Use his realms as the entry point if you are new to this style of puzzle game.
FIELD NOTES
Reading Alan Hazelden in play
FIELD NOTE 01
Reading the board before you move
Treat the East and South as the most directly translatable realms, since each maps almost one-to-one onto its source game.
FIELD NOTE 02
Working the chain in order
Expect his mechanics to be pure spatial logic with no resource management attached.
FIELD NOTE 03
How this entry reads in motion
Look for the shared trait: both of his games are about creating or changing where you can stand.
PLATE WALL
SOURCES
Where this entry comes from
Each record below backs a specific claim on this page. Tier 1 is the developer or publisher speaking in their own words, tier 2 is established press, and tier 3 is creator coverage. Quotations are rendered in written form; the exact spoken wording from the source is kept underneath each one for verification.
- 01 TIER 1 - OFFICIAL Steam (Thekla, Inc. official store description) VERIFIED 2026-10-11
Alan Hazelden contributed the two design foundations that became the East and the South: Mirror Isles, a top-down game about swapping places with reflections across islands, and Sk
“Skipping Stones to Lonely Homes by Alan Hazelden: A serene puzzle game about throwing stones into water to create stepping paths.”
OPEN SOURCE → - 02 TIER 1 - OFFICIAL Steam store page (Thekla, Inc.) VERIFIED 2026-10-11
Entity identity and official naming for Alan Hazelden
“From legendary director Jonathan Blow (Braid, The Witness) comes Order of the Sinking Star, a massive puzzle adventure featuring more than one thousand hand-crafted puzzles designed to put your intellect to the test. You”
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GRID RELATIONS
Cross-board links
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