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Game Development with Swift

Game Development with Swift

By : Stephen Haney
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Game Development with Swift

Game Development with Swift

4.6 (14)
By: Stephen Haney
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Overview of this book

If you wish to create and publish fun iOS games using Swift, then this book is for you. You should be familiar with basic programming concepts. However, no prior game development or Apple ecosystem experience is required.
Table of Contents (13 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. Designing Games with Swift
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1. Designing Games with Swift
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Why you will love Swift
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Are there any downsides to Swift?
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Prerequisites
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What you will learn in this book
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Further research
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Setting up your development environment
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Creating our first Swift game
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Summary
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2. Sprites, Camera, Actions!
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2. Sprites, Camera, Actions!
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Sharpening our pencils
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Checkpoint 2- A
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Drawing your first sprite
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The story on positioning
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Adding textures and game art
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Organizing your assets
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Putting it all together
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Centering the camera on a sprite
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Checkpoint 2-B
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3. Mix in the Physics
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3. Mix in the Physics
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Laying the foundation
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Exploring the physics system
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Checkpoint 3-A
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Exploring physics simulation mechanics
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Bee meets bee
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Checkpoint 3-B
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4. Adding Controls
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4. Adding Controls
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Retrofitting the Player class for flight
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Polling for device movement with Core Motion
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Checkpoint 4-A
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Wiring up the sprite onTap events
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Teaching our penguin to fly
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Improving the camera
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Pushing Pierre forward
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Checkpoint 4-B
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5. Spawning Enemies, Coins, and Power-ups
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5. Spawning Enemies, Coins, and Power-ups
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Introducing the cast
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Organizing the project navigator
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Testing the new game objects
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Checkpoint 5-A
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6. Generating a Never-Ending World
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6. Generating a Never-Ending World
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Designing levels with the SpriteKit scene editor
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Encounters in endless flying
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Integrating scenes into the game
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Checkpoint 6-A
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Spawning endless encounters
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Spawning the star power-up at random
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7. Implementing Collision Events
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7. Implementing Collision Events
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Learning the SpriteKit collision vocabulary
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Adding contact events to our game
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Checkpoint 7-A
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Player health and damage
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Collecting coins
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The power-up star logic
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Checkpoint 7-B
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8. Polishing to a Shine – HUD, Parallax Backgrounds, Particles, and More
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8. Polishing to a Shine – HUD, Parallax Backgrounds, Particles, and More
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Adding a heads-up display
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Parallax background layers
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Checkpoint 8-A
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Harnessing SpriteKit's particle system
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Granting safety as the game starts
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Checkpoint 8-B
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9. Adding Menus and Sounds
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9. Adding Menus and Sounds
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Building the main menu
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Adding the restart game menu
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Checkpoint 9-A
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Adding music and sound
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Checkpoint 9-B
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10. Integrating with Game Center
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10. Integrating with Game Center
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Registering an app with iTunes Connect
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Authenticating the player's Game Center account
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Opening Game Center in our game
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Checkpoint 10-A
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Adding a leaderboard of high scores
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Adding an achievement
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Checkpoint 10-B
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11. Ship It! Preparing for the App Store and Publication
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11. Ship It! Preparing for the App Store and Publication
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Finalizing assets
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Finalizing iTunes Connect information
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Uploading our project from Xcode
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Submitting for review in iTunes Connect
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Index
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Index

Chapter 6. Generating a Never-Ending World

The unique challenge of an endless flyer-style game is in procedurally generating a rich, entertaining game world that extends as far as your player can fly. We will first explore level design concepts and tooling in Xcode; Apple added a built-in level designer to Xcode 6, allowing developers to arrange nodes visually within a scene. Once we become familiar with the SpriteKit level design methodology, we will create a custom solution to generate our world. In this chapter, you will build an entertaining world for our penguin game and learn to design and implement levels in SpriteKit for any genre of game.

The topics in this chapter include:

  • Designing levels with the SpriteKit scene editor
  • Building encounters for Pierre Penguin
  • Integrating scenes into the game
  • Looping encounters for a never-ending world
  • Adding the star power-up at random
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