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Swift 3 Game Development

Swift 3 Game Development

By : Haney
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Swift 3 Game Development

Swift 3 Game Development

4.5 (6)
By: Haney

Overview of this book

Swift is the perfect choice for game development. Developers are intrigued by Swift 3.0 and want to make use of new features to develop their best games yet. Packed with best practices and easy-to-use examples, this book leads you step by step through the development of your first Swift game. This book starts by introducing SpriteKit and Swift's new features that can be used for game development. After setting up your first Swift project, you will build your first custom class, learn how to draw and animate your game, and add physics simulations. Then, you will add the player character, NPCs, and powerups. To make your game more fun and engaging, you will learn how to set up scenes and backgrounds, build fun menus, and integrate with Apple Game Center to add leaderboards and achievements. You will then make your game stand out by adding animations when game objects collide, and incorporate proven techniques such as the advanced particle system and graphics. Finally, you will explore the various options available to start down the path towards monetization and publish your finished games to the App Store. By the end of this book, you will be able to create your own iOS games using Swift and SpriteKit.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)
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Chapter 2. Sprites, Camera, Action!

We will start our first game by learning how to draw shapes and textures on the screen. SpriteKit makes drawing simple by doing a lot of the hard work and exposing simple classes we can use for rendering. We are free to focus on building great gameplay experiences while SpriteKit performs the mechanical work of the game loop.

To draw an item on the screen, we create a new instance of a SpriteKit node. These nodes are simple; we attach a child node to our scene, or to existing nodes, for each item we want to draw. Sprites, particle emitters, and text labels are all considered nodes in SpriteKit.

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The game loop is a common game design pattern used to constantly update the game many times per second and maintain the same gameplay speed on fast or slow hardware. SpriteKit wires new nodes into the game loop automatically. As you gain expertise with SpriteKit, you may wish to explore the game loop further to understand what is going on...

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