135: Hint Whales

Unconsoleable

A pod of hint whales

His games drive us nuts, but we can't help loving them anyway. So after much trash talk, we welcome puzzle master extraordinaire (and Unconsoleable listener!) Alan Hazelden to the show.

Alan tells us a bit about what he did before making devilishly challenging puzzle games, how he goes about designing and testing his games, which developers he looks up to, and even his favorite pizza toppings :-)

But wait, there's more! We also tell Alan how he can turn his games into F2P gold mines so the next time he comes on the show, he can have a Notch house of his very own :-p Of course we kid. None of that will happen, but it was fun to imagine!

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Stuff we mentioned:

• Snakebird (iOS, Android & Steam)
• Cosmic Express (iOS, Android & Steam)
• A Good Snowman is Hard to Build (iOS, Android & Steam)
• Glorious Trainwrecks
• Shit Snake
• These Robotic Hearts of Mine (iOS & Android)
• Sokobond
• PuzzleScript
• Rust Bucket (iOS & Android)
• SpaceChem
• Human Resource Machine (iOS, Android & Steam)
• Alan’s recent interview with Rock, Paper, Shotgun
• Deus Ex: GO (iOS & Android)
• Mekorama (iOS & Android)
• Stephen Lavelle
• English Country Tune (iOS & Steam)
• Stephen’s Sausage Roll
• Terry Cavanaugh
• VVVVVV (iOS, Android & Steam)
• QWOP
• GIRP
• Ira Glass
• TypeShift (iOS only)
• Benjamin Davis
• Kami 2 (iOS only)
• Cheesing
• Abuse Alan on Twitter