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Swift Game Development - Third Edition

By : Siddharth Shekar, Stephen Haney
Book Image

Swift Game Development - Third Edition

By: Siddharth Shekar, Stephen Haney

Overview of this book

Swift is the perfect choice for game development. Developers are intrigued by Swift 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. The book starts by introducing Swift's best features – including its new ones for game development. Using SpriteKit, you will learn how to animate sprites and textures. Along the way, you will master physics, animations, and collision effects and how to build the UI aspects of a game. You will then work on creating a 3D game using the SceneKit framework. Further, we will look at how to add monetization and integrate Game Center. With iOS 12, we see the introduction of ARKit 2.0. This new version allows us to integrate shared experiences such as multiplayer augmented reality and persistent AR that is tied to a specific location so that the same information can be replicated on all connected devices. In the next section, we will dive into creating Augmented Reality games using SpriteKit and SceneKit. Then, finally, we will see how to create a Multipeer AR project to connect two devices, and send and receive data back and forth between those devices in real time. By the end of this book, you will be able to create your own iOS games using Swift and publish them on the iOS App Store.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Swift Game Development Third Edition
Contributors
Preface
Other Books You May Enjoy
Index

Leveraging crowdfunding


Many developers are turning to crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter and Indiegogo to fund their projects. These sites allow you to put your unfinished product before the world and ask supporters to chip in monetarily to make it a reality. You ask for a small amount of money from a great number of people. This is an excellent way to gather funds if your idea resonates well with the public.

Crowdfunding opens up many new possibilities, but successful crowdfunding campaigns create their own success by hyping their projects through the press and social media. Crowdfunding campaigns that launch with pre-existing fan bases are most likely to succeed.

Pros and cons of crowdfunding

One of the best aspects of crowdfunding is that it forces developers to create all the necessary marketing materials for their games. Even if your crowdfunding campaign is unsuccessful, you will gain all the materials and assets you need to market your game in the process. On the other hand...