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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

Building a SKSpriteNode class


Let's begin by drawing a blue square on the screen. The SKSpriteNode class can draw both texture graphics and solid blocks of color. It is often helpful to prototype your new game ideas with blocks of color before you spend time on artwork. To draw the blue square, add an instance of SKSpriteNode to the game:

Override func didMove(to view: SKView) { 
    // Make the scene position from its lower left 
    // corner, regardless of any other settings: 
self.anchorPoint = .zero 

    // Instantiate a constant, mySprite, instance of SKSpriteNode
    // The SKSpriteNode constructor can set color and size 
    // Note: UIColor is a UIKit class with built-in colorpresets
    // Note: CGSize is a type we use to set node sizes 
let mySprite = SKSpriteNode(color: .blue, size: 
CGSize(width: 50, height: 50)) 

    // Assign our sprite a position in points, relative to its 
    // parent node (in this case, the scene) 
mySprite.position = CGPoint(x: 150, y: 150) 

    /...