Get help
For bugs, device problems, or gameplay feedback, email hello@benhartline.com.
To help reproduce a problem, include:
- Your device model and operating system version.
- The app version shown in your app store.
- Which game you were in, Orbit Grapple or Orbit Jumper, or whether you were on the game selector.
- What you did right before the issue and what happened.
The app itself never sends anything. If you choose to email, your message is used to respond to you and manage the conversation, and email providers process its delivery and storage. See Support email in the privacy policy.
Orbit Grapple
Hold and release
Hold anywhere on the screen to latch onto the highlighted anchor in range and swing. Release to fly. Chain swings to keep speed, avoid hazards, and travel as far as you can.
Orbit Jumper
Tap to launch
Your ship orbits a planet while the aim sweeps back and forth. Tap to launch toward the next planet, let gravity capture you, and climb higher without hitting a hazard or drifting out of bounds.
Switching between games
- Pick a game from the two cards on the Orbit Arcade selector.
- While playing, the home control near the top of the screen returns you to the selector. The system back gesture or button does the same on Android.
- Leaving a game ends the current run. Each game keeps its own best scores and settings, and they are saved on your device when you leave.
- The Privacy and Support buttons under the game cards show this information inside the app. It is bundled with the app and works offline, and the buttons never open a browser or email app. In the app, the email address is shown as plain text.
Quick fixes
- Touch feels stuck. Return to the selector with the home control and launch the game again.
- Motion is uncomfortable. Both games have a reduced-motion option in their pause or settings menu.
- Hard to read. Both games have a high-contrast option. Orbit Jumper also has a precision-aim option that slows the aim sweep.
- Sound or vibration is distracting. Sound, music, and haptic feedback can be turned off in each game's settings.
- The app will not start. Close it fully, reopen it, and make sure your device has current system updates.
- A best score is missing. Scores live only on the device that earned them. The app provides no cloud sync, so deleting the app or clearing its storage removes them from that device. Only a device backup you made yourself, which your operating system manages separately, could bring them back.
Your data and how to delete it
Orbit Arcade stores only local gameplay data on your device: best scores, run totals, goal progress, unlocked styles, and settings for each game. It has no accounts, analytics, ads, in-app purchases, tracking, cloud saves, or server communication.
To delete all local gameplay data for both games:
- iPhone and iPad: delete the app from the Home Screen, or use Settings, General, iPhone Storage, Orbit Arcade, Delete App. Offloading the app keeps its data; deleting removes it.
- Android: uninstall the app, or open Settings, Apps, Orbit Arcade, Storage, and choose Clear storage to erase the data while keeping the app.
Deleting removes the data stored on that device. The app provides no cloud sync, so there is no copy elsewhere to restore from, but device backups managed by your operating system can contain gameplay data and can restore it. To ask that a support email you sent be deleted, email hello@benhartline.com from the same address. Read the privacy policy for the full list of what is stored.