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iOS 9 Game Development Essentials

By : Chuck Gaffney
Book Image

iOS 9 Game Development Essentials

By: Chuck Gaffney

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (15 chapters)
iOS 9 Game Development Essentials
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

The Apple Watch


As of iOS 9, the Apple Watch's platform already got an upgrade with watchOS 2. The Apple Watch is generally, at the moment, not a video game platform. Without taking the small screen size into play, apps made for the Apple Watch don't have much in the way of making game-like graphics updates. In the future, this might change. At the moment, apps made in watchOS are like child apps of main iOS apps. Eventually, we can make watchOS apps separately without having them attached to a parent iOS project. However, some developers have made simple text-based games for the Apple watch. It's possible that in the future, we could make more action-oriented games for the Apple Watch.

Currently, it's very much possible to make a game that uses the watch for accessories data, such as inventory, maps, and more with a little bit of ingenuity. One feature of the Apple Watch that we could design games or game controls with is Force Touch. Force Touch senses how firm the press gesture is. This...