Press kit
ForWhileDo LiRoHop
A free iPhone arcade game where a single run passes through five completely different games, back to back, with no menu and no loading screen between them. Clear the fifth and it starts again, faster and repainted.
Free on the App Store The game's site DevlogFact sheet
| Title | ForWhileDo LiRoHop |
|---|---|
| Developer | FORWHILEDO LLC, Arizona, USA |
| Platform | iPhone only, portrait. iOS 18.6 or later |
| Released | 7 August 2026 |
| Price | Free. One optional purchase, Premium Unlock at $3.99, which permanently unlocks level select. It gates no content |
| Genre | Arcade, action, casual |
| Age rating | 9+ |
| Download size | 8.6 MB |
| Languages | English |
| App Store | apps.apple.com/us/app/forwhiledo-lirohop/id6763485886 |
| Official site | lirohop.forwhiledo.com |
| Press contact | info@forwhiledo.com |
The short version
Five arcade worlds. One bounce that never stops.
LiRoHop opens as a simple climb up a tower of clouds. Keep going and the sky drains to black and the climb becomes a space flight. Then a river race. Then a falling colour puzzle. Then a room that rotates ninety degrees at a time while gravity stays pointed down. It is one uninterrupted run through five different genres, and the transitions happen without a menu, a level select or a loading screen.
The five worlds
- Cloud Hop. Bounce up an endless cloud stack. Jump clouds launch you, rain clouds briefly invert your steering, wind clouds shove you sideways.
- Deep Space. Fly through asteroid fields, squadrons and debris rings. Black holes pull you in, white holes push you away and throw rocks at you.
- Wild Rapids. A top down river, newly generated every single run, flown on a fuel gauge with pumps that are never quite where you want them.
- Color Rain. Aim and land coloured orbs, clear three or more, and everything hanging underneath comes down with them. Beat the descending ceiling.
- Gravity Box. Gravity always points down, so you rotate the room instead. Reach the door without meeting a spike.
What makes it unusual
You play a song by climbing
Every cloud climb picks one of 60 public domain melodies. Each bounce plays the next note, so the line you take through the clouds becomes the rhythm of the tune. Six instruments are matched to the melody, and the song plays through complete however you climb. None of it ships as audio files. It is generated at runtime.
8.6 MB, and nothing else in the bundle
The game is native Swift and SpriteKit with zero third party SDKs. No ad network, no analytics SDK, no advertising identifier, no crash reporter, no account and no sign up. Its App Store privacy label reads Data Not Collected. That is also why the download is 8.6 MB.
Every puzzle room is solvable before you see it
Gravity Box rooms are generated and then verified by a solver before the player is allowed into them. An unsolvable room is discarded rather than shipped.
It was balanced by a robot
Difficulty across all five worlds was tuned using an in house autopilot rig: five purpose built bots played hundreds of runs in the simulator while death causes were attributed per hazard. One hazard in world five turned out to be responsible for 27% of all deaths and was redesigned before release. No human player ever met that version.
Screenshots
All images below are the shipped store screenshots, 1320 x 2868, free to use in coverage of the game. Right click and save, or click through for full size.
App icon
Usage
Screenshots, the icon and gameplay footage may be used freely in articles, videos and reviews about the game. Please credit FORWHILEDO LLC. Do not alter the artwork or present it as your own. The names ForWhileDo and LiRoHop, and the ForWhileDo mark, are the property of FORWHILEDO LLC.
Contact
Press and review requests: info@forwhiledo.com. Questions about the build, the audio system, the solver or the test rig are welcome, and there is more detail in the devlog.