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Swift 3 Game Development - Second Edition

By : Stephen Haney
Book Image

Swift 3 Game Development - Second Edition

By: Stephen 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 (20 chapters)
Swift 3 Game Development - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Creating a test user


We have informed Apple that we want to use Game Center in our game. Next, we need to create a sandbox user account for testing purposes.

Game Center uses separate test servers during app development, so we will not be able to use our real Apple ID to log in to Game Center while we are testing. Instead, we will create a sandbox account in iTunes Connect.

Tip

The iOS Developer Library states, Always create new test accounts to test your game in Game Center. Never use an existing Apple ID.

Follow these steps to create a Game Center sandbox account for testing:

  1. On the iTunes Connect home page, select Users and Roles, as shown in the following screenshot:

  2. Once you are on the Users and Roles page, click on Sandbox Testers in the navigation bar at the top of the screen.

  3. As directed on the Sandbox Testers page, click the + icon to add a new user.

  4. Fill out the test user's information to your liking. Here is how I filled out my test user's information:

  5. Click the Save button to create...