Order of the Sinking Star Developer and Credits

Who developed Order of the Sinking Star?

Short answer: Thekla, Inc. developed Order of the Sinking Star. Steam lists Jonathan Blow as director and Arc Games and Gamirror Games as publishers. The official June 10 demo announcement also describes the game as led by Blow and made with his team at Thekla.

Public role	Confirmed record
Developer	Thekla, Inc.
Director	Jonathan Blow
Publishers	Arc Games and Gamirror Games
Complete staff roll	Not provided in the checked public materials

These are the public roles confirmed by the checked sources; they are not a complete staff roll.

What is confirmed about development?

Steam describes the project as nearly a decade of work since The Witness. The June 10, 2026 official announcement says Jonathan Blow had spent about ten years building the world and puzzles with Thekla. Together, those sources point to a broad 2016–2026 development window, not a precise staffing schedule.

Steam also describes more than 1,000 interconnected, hand-crafted puzzles and four worlds whose systems can combine. The public materials do not establish a precise team schedule or the Jai programming-language claim.

Which contributors are publicly named?

The Steam listing names several design contributors:

• Jonathan Blow, associated with Braid and The Witness.
• Alan Hazelden, associated with Skipping Stones to Lonely Homes and Mirror Isles.
• Sean Barrett, associated with Promesst 1–3.
• Jonah Ostroff, associated with the Heroes of Sokoban series.
• Zach Polansky, associated with Enigmash.
• Patrick Traynor, associated with Patrick’s Parabox.
• Marc ten Bosch, associated with Miegakure.

Treat these as the design contributors named in the Steam listing. It does not say that each person worked on every puzzle, world, or system, and it is not a complete end-credit list.

Is there a complete staff credits list?

No complete, itemized staff roll appears in the checked public materials. The checked URL 11581638 returns “Play The Demo Now!” rather than a developer FAQ, so it cannot answer a credits question.

To verify one specific role: first open the game’s own credits screen. If that role is not listed there, check a later official news item or official credits post. Until one of those first-party records names the role, treat it as unconfirmed.