Press Kit

These were my goals for building Typefall as a solo developer.

RELEASE SCHEDULE
The App Store page opens for pre-order first. The app is released on 13 October 2026. That is also the first day the word-of-the-day list covers.

ACCESSIBILITY
Only the falling board is SpriteKit. I wrote every other screen in SwiftUI, so the lobby, the shop, settings, the lexicon and the game HUD all have a real accessibility tree. Controls carry labels, values and hints. The settings switches are real Toggle views, so the switch trait and the spoken on and off state come from the system. Reduce Motion stops the launch wordmark drift and the loading row animation. I would rather name the gaps myself. There is no Dynamic Type, no audio and no controller support. The app ships in English only.

PRIVACY
There is no account and no sign-in. The dictionary and the rarity data ship inside the app, so a whole run needs no network. The usage analytics are anonymous. I put scores, word counts and run lengths into bands before they are sent. No single run can be picked out of a day of traffic. A switch in Settings stops the analytics. I ask for no advertising identifier, so there is no tracking prompt.

MONETIZATION
The game is free. There is no advertising of any kind, between runs or for rewards. A run costs a life. A player holds three lives, and one comes back every two hours. The shop sells ten hints, a fourth life, and Infinite Lives, which removes the lives gate for good. There is no subscription.

THE WORD LIST
Words come from ENABLE2K, a public-domain English list. A blocklist takes words out of it. I decided each blocked word one at a time, rather than taking a public profanity list. None of those lists draws the line a word game needs. The rarity tiers come from a frequency corpus of 690.9 million words of film and television dialogue. A rare find is a word people rarely say, rather than one they rarely write.

WORD OF THE DAY
One word for each of 365 days, from 13 October 2026 to 12 October 2027. Every one is an exact WordNet lemma, shown with its WordNet gloss as a meaning. WordNet is Princeton University's, used under its licence, and the notice ships with the app. Matching the day's word builds a streak, which has a leaderboard and achievements of its own.

GAME CENTER
Game Center carries two leaderboards. One takes the score, and one takes the word-of-the-day streak. Sixteen achievements sit on three ladders, which count words found, streak length and ultra rare finds.

ICLOUD
The collected words, the score board and the streak days follow the player across devices. The merge is a set union, so no device can take a word back from another one.

DESIGN
The palette is four sepia neutrals and one amber. The amber only ever means "tap this". The whole game is set in the system monospaced face. No layout reads the screen size, so a taller phone shows more of the page instead of larger type.