Press kit
Fact sheet
Farsun is a free-flight gravity shooter for iPhone and iPad, laid out for iPhone Duo. Its one rule is that gravity bends every shot, yours and theirs. It was designed and built by one person in under five months, natively in Swift, and it launches on November 1, 2026.
30 seconds of play · Silent
Download a gameplay clip · MP4, 886 × 1920, 29 s, 13 MB · Screen recordings with the game's music
Why it stands out
There are no formation grids and no bullet patterns to memorize. Every sector has stars, black holes and pulsars moving on their own orbits, and every shot on the screen, the player's and the enemy's, curves around them. You sling fire around a star, herd hunters into a comet, and charge your own black hole from near misses.
Every pilot flies the same daily sector. A finished run leaves an echo, the ships you failed to kill, and a rival inherits them as an extra wave. Head-to-head play works at any hour because the opponent has already flown. Friends add each other by code or link and challenge in one tap.
A season lasts two months, changes one rule of the board, and gives you a constellation to light star by star. What you light stays in your home sky for good, finished or not, and past expeditions stay flyable. Six seasons are built for the first year.
The simulation is deterministic: a seeded generator and a fixed 120 Hz timestep in a pure Swift package with no UI code in it. The same seed is the same sector on every device, which is what makes shared dailies, echoes and duels fair, and lets a headless solver fly a board without the game running.
Under the hull
Farsun is native end to end, with no cross-platform engine, no third-party SDKs and no server of its own. Everything online runs on Apple's services.
The making of
The first commit is dated June 10, 2026. The game is about 55,000 lines of Swift, written on nights and weekends with coding agents working from specifications and one person reviewing all of it.
The art is generated by code. A Swift package in the repository builds every hull, the player's ships and each enemy role, from one parameterized ship generator, and draws the scrolling skies and the planets the same way, so the two-hundredth sprite belongs to the same world as the first.
The sound is 123 files: 81 effects and 42 pieces of music. Each region and each season has its own score in three layers (calm, storm and boss) that crossfade live with the danger on screen. Every layer is cut to the same bar count, key and tempo by a small audio pipeline, so scores can change mid-voyage without a seam.
After launch
Six seasons, two months each, with no gaps. Each adds an expedition through a new region, one new rule, and a constellation. Nothing a player earns is ever taken away.
Images
The App Store panels, the open iPhone Duo in landscape, and the launch event art. Full-resolution files, plain captures without the marketing frame, iPad and iPhone Duo versions and the icon are available on request at drew0716@icloud.com.
About the developer
Drew is a software developer in Fairfax, Virginia, who builds and ships his own iOS apps and games end to end, from architecture through App Store review. Farsun is his third app on the App Store, after TripChronos, a travel-memory app, and Prism Runner, an arcade runner rebuilt natively in Swift, SpriteKit and Metal this year.
Press, editorial and support questions all reach him directly: drew0716@icloud.com. More at drewgalbraith.rocks.
