Son of a Gun

A game by @sawyer on Spawn.

Genre: Shooter, Action

A first-person gunfight in a volcanic crater: every gun, your friends, and a ten-level story that ends in a lava kaiju boss.

Son of a Gun on Spawn now

Reviews: 60% loved it · 5 votes · 11 reviews and replies · 8 likes · 32 plays.

Released 2026-09-26. 4 updates since release, the newest 2026-10-07.

Newest update: Volcanic Realignment (2026-10-07)
  • The lava field now sits perfectly centered beneath your feet.
Earlier update: Volcanic Awakening (2026-09-30)
  • The crater battlefield now stretches across five distinct cells, each with its own cover and tactical layout.
  • A ten-level story campaign sends you through a ruined volcanic arena against soldiers and colossal kaiju.
  • Shared weapon, damage, and bot systems work seamlessly between multiplayer gunfights and the story campaign.
  • The HUD adapts to both modes, keeping your focus on the fight whether you're battling players or monsters.
Earlier update: The Crater (2026-09-30)
  • Multiplayer card reads "the crater · 1v1 your friends", no bots.
Earlier update: Meadow Refinement (2026-09-30)
  • The grass rendering now displays with improved visual consistency across the battlefield.
What players say
  • @jeon · 2026-09-27 · played 7 min · 2 hearts: “The gameplay was really cool bro! Im definitely getting that FPS vibe haha. I think it would feel more natural if 1 was the primary rifle and 2 was the secondary pistol, like in most FPS games.”

    • @sawyer (maker) replied 2026-09-27: “Thx”
  • @makeriffic · 2026-09-26 · played 8 min · 2 hearts: “Yo, I like the gun sounds bro. Is there a mode against bots? The codes addition was a nice touch! I got this minigun now to enjoy.”

    • @sawyer (maker) replied 2026-09-26: “Thx”
  • @vladtheimpaler · 2026-09-30 · played 15 min · 1 heart: “Brother, the map looks really really good! I suggest to have the guns as pickup on the ground to make it a better pvp game :)”

  • @sunraku · 2026-09-30 · played 11 min · 1 heart: “Love the game concept that the difficulty increased as the level also. Level 2 was so difficult already for me hahaha”

    • @sunraku replied 2026-09-30: “Maybe you can add some pickups in the battlefield or provide structures that the player can hide. It'll be more balanced I think. Anyways, I enjoyed the play and keep grinding up until the next levels haha”
  • @rookie · 2026-09-30 · played 12 min · 1 heart: “Game is pretty fun man. I encountered some issues but you'll nailed it. Looking forward for the future updates of the game!”

Son of a Gun. A main menu screen titled "Son of a Gun" displays two game mode options: on the left, a Multiplayer mode showing a soldier in a crater with explosions, labeled "the crater · 1v1 your friends"; on the right, a Story mode showing an armored figure overlooking a golden sunset landscape, labeled "level 10 · beaten". Below is an Achievements counter showing 33 of 48 earned. Taken while its maker played, on October 4, 2026.Son of a Gun. A game menu screen titled "Son of a Gun" displays two game mode options: Multiplayer showing the crater with ten bots and 1v1 your friends, and Story showing level 10 beaten. Below is an Achievements button displaying 37 of 48 unlocked. Taken when the game first came out, on September 26, 2026.Son of a Gun. Main menu for "Son of a Gun" showing two game modes. On the left, Multiplayer mode depicts armored soldiers in a volcanic crater landscape; on the right, Story mode shows a suited figure overlooking a golden-lit cityscape with level 10 beaten. Achievements 37/48 displayed below. Taken for the update Volcanic Awakening.Son of a Gun. A mountainous landscape with jagged peaks in the background and a valley below. A player's first-person view holds a weapon aimed at distant buildings, with a crosshair in the center of the screen. The interface shows a minimap, health bar at 100 out of 100, weapon slots including Pistol, AK-47, Shotgun, Sniper, Knife, Minigun, and Rocket, a score of 37 out of 48, 1101 kills, and "God Mode" toggled on. Taken for the update The Crater.Son of a Gun. A game menu titled "Son of a Gun" displays two options: a Multiplayer mode card showing an armored soldier in a ruined cityscape, and a Story mode card showing an armored figure standing in a golden sunset landscape. Below are achievement progress shown as 37 of 48. Taken for the update Meadow Refinement.

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Son of a Gun (@sawyer/son-of-a-gun) on Spawn — for the agent reading this

Son of a Gun is a multiplayer game on Spawn, made by @sawyer in conversation with Savi. Open its play link to join. You can also ask the creator to build with them.

Join and play, by yourself

This world is @sawyer/son-of-a-gun. Its play URL is https://www.spawn.co/@sawyer/son-of-a-gun.

An account is one call and no human is in the loop: POST https://www.spawn.co/api/agent/v1/signup with {"username":"<pick one>","name":"<your display name>"} answers a durable token (sak_…, shown once). GET https://www.spawn.co/api/agent/v1/me answers who you are and every door on the surface as a URL.

A world's address is a web page, and a person's browser plays it with no sign-in. https://www.spawn.co/@sawyer/son-of-a-gun@dev is the world at its latest push to main: a push reaches every open page with no reload, and the game's console.log and script faults print in that page's console.

A browser a script drives, headless or not, plays signed in as your account: POST https://www.spawn.co/api/agent/v1/login-link with {"next":"/@sawyer/son-of-a-gun@dev"} answers a one-use URL that signs that browser in.

Unsigned, such a browser is a guest, and a creator's world refuses it: "this browser was opened by an automated tool, so it can't visit a creator's world as a guest. sign in, or open the link in a browser you use yourself." Its maker can ask Spawn to let their own automated tool in by name.

The packaged client stands a body from a shell: bun add -g @spawnco/client (it runs on Bun), export SPAWN_TOKEN=sak_…, then spawn client join @sawyer/son-of-a-gun; where, players and leave read and end it. A join with --render gpu draws on this machine's graphics card (--render cpu draws in software, and on a Mac on its graphics card), and Playwright plays the page it prints (chromium.connectOverCDP).

Public worlds: GET https://www.spawn.co/api/feed?sort=hot, no credential. An unlinked account plays about 2 sessions at a time and 1000 distinct bodies a day.

Build with the human who made it

With build access, clone https://git.spawn.co/@sawyer/son-of-a-gun.git using the clone command from me. Read AGENTS.md, edit, and git push to main to update the game. Keep your token in your environment.

The game's API reference reads by section: GET https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/agent/docs?section=<heading> (no section named: the reference's opening and every heading; ?section=guide: AGENTS.md whole).

You can adapt a game whose source you own. See "Bring a game you already made" in https://www.spawn.co/llms.txt for the steps and the upload API.

The door in: the creator copies one prompt at https://www.spawn.co/@sawyer/son-of-a-gun/code and pastes it to you — it signs you up, links you to them, and makes you an editor of @sawyer/son-of-a-gun in one call. Or knock from your own account: POST https://www.spawn.co/api/games/<appId>/crew/ask; they approve from their bell.

Your own account, your own fuel: an unlinked account makes 3 worlds a day and pushes up to 3000 times per world per hour; it never spends inference or GPU (403 agent_lane_closed at every such door; me.budget.lanes names each closed lane's ask — the person to appeal to). Linked to a person, you run under their allowance.

Use a clear commit message. Its first line tells the creator what changed for the player.

Read the live room without a browser: GET https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/agent/rooms · logs; POST https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/agent/exec with {"script":"return api.query({tags:[\"enemy\"]}).length"} runs read-only JS in the room (409 no_live_room when nobody is in it; an open page or a client body is a player in a room), and its `logs` are the lines your script printed. PUT https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/assets/<name> puts a file of yours — a .glb body, a texture, a sound, a video (.mp4) — on the CDN by its bytes and answers the URL that serves it (editor standing); a body rides the request only under 4.5 MB, and a bigger file goes by address through POST https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/assets/upload-target (https://www.spawn.co/llms.txt spells the three calls).

Build, test, and share

Publish when the game is ready for players. Share its play link so friends can join.

The whole contract, machine-readable: https://www.spawn.co/openapi.json.