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Sparrow iOS Game Framework Beginner's Guide

By : Johannes Stein
Book Image

Sparrow iOS Game Framework Beginner's Guide

By: Johannes Stein

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Sparrow iOS Game Framework Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Afterword
Index

Implementing tutorial mechanics


There are many different ways for tutorials to be implemented. It may range from just showing an image with controls, to having an interactive experience, to displaying a control scheme each time the player is about to perform an action. In general, the last two options could be achieved with a finite state machine, similar to the one we used for our artificial intelligence.

For our purposes, we will update the intro scene to display hints while the animation is playing.