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iOS 9 Game Development Essentials

By : Chuck Gaffney
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iOS 9 Game Development Essentials

By: Chuck Gaffney

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Table of Contents (15 chapters)
iOS 9 Game Development Essentials
iOS 9 Game Development Essentials
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
The Swift Programming Language
The Swift Programming Language
Hello World!
No more semicolons
Variables, constants, and primitive data types
Arrays, matrices, sets, and dictionaries
Mutable/immutable collections
Objective-C and Swift comparison
Characters and strings
Commenting in Swift
Boolean
Ints, UInts, floats, and doubles
Objects in Swift
Optionals
Tuples
Summary
2
Structuring and Planning a Game Using iOS 9 Storyboards and Segues
Structuring and Planning a Game Using iOS 9 Storyboards and Segues
Model-View-Controller
An iOS app's lifecycle
Storyboards and segues
Storyboards versus coding
Summary
3
SpriteKit and 2D Game Design
SpriteKit and 2D Game Design
A brief history of iOS game development engines
The game loop
Tile game – SwiftSweeper
Creating our SpriteKit game
Creating our game logic
DemoBots
4
SceneKit and 3D Game Design
SceneKit and 3D Game Design
SceneKit basics and working with nodes
SpriteKit / SceneKit interactivity
Our first SceneKit scene – the Xcode template
SceneKit features introduced in iOS 9 / Xcode 7
Fox demo
Particle systems
Introducing SceneKit and SpriteKit physics
Summary
5
GameplayKit
GameplayKit
Entities and components
State machines
Summary
6
Exhibit the Metal in Your Game
Exhibit the Metal in Your Game
The Apple Metal API and the graphics pipeline
What are shaders?
Why is Metal faster than OpenGL ES?
The basic Metal object/code structure
Summary
7
Publishing Our iOS Game
Publishing Our iOS Game
The ever changing process of app submission
Submitting your game for review
Updating your game
Summary
8
The Future of iOS Game Development
The Future of iOS Game Development
A greater focus on functional programming
The Apple Watch
Component-based structuring
The rise of VR
Summary
Index
Index

Credits

Author

Chuck Gaffney

Reviewers

Mohit Athwani

Rahul Borawar

Chady Kassouf

Joni Mikkola

Commissioning Editor

Julian Ursell

Acquisition Editors

Vinay Argekar

Sonali Vernekar

Content Development Editor

Parita Khedekar

Technical Editor

Edwin Moses

Copy Editor

Dipti Mankame

Project Coordinator

Judie Jose

Proofreader

Safis Editing

Indexer

Hemangini Bari

Graphics

Abhinash Sahu

Production Coordinator

Nitesh Thakur

Cover Work

Nitesh Thakur

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