It's possible that this occurs because my view controller is set up to LandscapeRight, but is there a way to mirror the text without having to redefine my game's coordinate system and physics? There is a command to rotate the text using the text matrix, but I didn't see any mirror transformations that can be applied.

Thanks!

You can scale it -1 ? dont know if thats the best way of doing it though, maybe im thinking of open gl

Yes, -1 will work.

CGContextSetTextMatrix(yourContext, CGAffineTransformMakeScale(1, -1));

thank you, I shall attempt that!