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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

Summary


We have made great strides in this chapter. Our new class organization will serve us well over the course of this book. We learned how to use protocols to enforce commonality across classes, encapsulated our game objects into distinct classes, and explored tiling textures over the width of the ground node. Finally, we cleaned out some of our previous learning code from GameScene and used the new class system to spawn all of our game objects.

We also applied the physics simulation to our game. We have only scratched the surface of the powerful physics system in SpriteKit-we will dive deeper into custom collision events in Chapter 7, Implementing Collision Events--but we have already gained quite a bit of functionality. We explored the three types of physics bodies and studied the various physics properties you can use to fine-tune the physical behavior of your game objects. Then, we put all of our hard work into practice by bumping our bees together and watching the results.

Next, we...