Sway credits and licences

Last updated 11 November 2026.

Created and developed by Guilherme (William) Fernandes.

Acknowledgement of Country

Sway's voyage sails past the lands and waters of many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of every place in the game and pay our respects to their Elders past and present.

With thanks

The music was made for Sway from scratch and played through the FluidR3_GM sound font by Frank Wen, released under the MIT licence.

• Fredoka, copyright 2016 The Fredoka Project Authors.
• Atkinson Hyperlegible, copyright 2020 Braille Institute of America, Inc.
• Saira Stencil One, copyright 2019 The Saira Stencil Project Authors.

All three fonts are used under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.

The real places in Sway are our own toy pictures of them, based on freely licensed photos from Wikimedia Commons (listed in our reference credits). Showing a real place doesn't mean its owners endorse Sway.

Made with Unity. Play statistics and crash reports by Unity. Ads by Google AdMob. The little map of Australia uses outlines from Natural Earth, which are in the public domain.

Sayings

• "A smooth sea never made a skilled sailor." (a sailors' saying)
• "Red sky at night, sailors' delight. Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning." (a sailors' saying)
• "We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails." (an old saying)
• "A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." (John A. Shedd, 1928)

Facts

• The Round House in Fremantle, opened in 1831, is Western Australia's oldest public building. A cannon is fired there at 1pm, just like the old time signal for sailors. (Source: Fremantle Ports)
• Busselton Jetty's underwater observatory sits 8 metres below the waves, among more than 300 kinds of sea life. (Source: Busselton Jetty)
• The brig Amity sailed into King George Sound in December 1826. A full-size copy of it sits on a wharf in Albany today. (Source: inHerit, the WA heritage register)
• Every year, humpback whales swim up the WA coast to have their calves in the warm Kimberley waters. (Source: Government of Western Australia)
• Australian sea lions live nowhere else on Earth, and mums spend about 15 months teaching each pup. (Source: SA Department for Environment and Water)

The harbour stories and sea animal facts were checked against public sources, mostly government, port authority, national park, museum and university pages. If you'd like the sources for a story or a fact, email us at [email protected].

Thank you for playing. Fair winds and following seas.

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