Frontier Painter

Paint physics. Fix the ship.

Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

You woke early. The ship is breaking apart — and a painter's palette of physics is all you have. Walk the ceiling, grab the rails, trace the glyphs. You're a painter aboard a generation ship, woken early by a software bug. The ship's reality is rendered in software — and it's coming apart. Rails overheat, circuits die, doors seal shut. You can't fix code, but you can paint. Your palette isn't colors. It's physics. PAINT PROPERTIES, NOT PIGMENT Every broken surface shows a symptom — "overheated", "dead circuit", "seized". Work out which property repairs it: COLD, CONDUCTIVE, or MAGNETIC. Walk up, press PAINT, and trace the property's glyph with your finger. Paint an overheated rail cold and it frosts into a handhold you can climb along. Paint a dead conduit conductive and the power comes back on. MOVE LIKE AN ASTRONAUT • Drift and thrust through zero gravity. • Grab rails and pull yourself hand over hand. • Switch on mag boots and walk on anything — floor, walls, ceiling. Walk off an edge and the wall becomes your floor. • Jump with boots on and let magnetism pull you to the nearest surface. LEARN AS YOU GO A short tutorial teaches one move per room, with clear prompts and glowing beacons — then the puzzles begin. Some surfaces are blocked by others: right property, right place, right order. • Twin-stick touch controls designed for iPhone and iPad • Original generative ambient soundtrack • Your progress is saved automatically • No ads, no accounts, no tracking — plays fully offline

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    Information

    Seller
    Dan Newcome
    Size
    7.5 MB
    Category
    Games
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
    • iPod touch
      Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
    Languages
    English
    Age Rating
    4+
    Copyright
    © 2026 Dan Newcome
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