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Game Development with Swift

By : Stephen Haney
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Game Development with Swift

By: Stephen Haney

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Game Development with Swift
Stephen Haney
Jul, 2015 | 224 pages
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Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Game Development with Swift
Game Development with Swift
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Designing Games with Swift
Designing Games with Swift
Why you will love Swift
Are there any downsides to Swift?
Prerequisites
What you will learn in this book
Further research
Setting up your development environment
Creating our first Swift game
Summary
2
Sprites, Camera, Actions!
Sprites, Camera, Actions!
Sharpening our pencils
Checkpoint 2- A
Drawing your first sprite
The story on positioning
Adding textures and game art
Organizing your assets
Putting it all together
Centering the camera on a sprite
Checkpoint 2-B
Summary
3
Mix in the Physics
Mix in the Physics
Laying the foundation
Exploring the physics system
Checkpoint 3-A
Exploring physics simulation mechanics
Bee meets bee
Checkpoint 3-B
Summary
4
Adding Controls
Adding Controls
Retrofitting the Player class for flight
Polling for device movement with Core Motion
Checkpoint 4-A
Wiring up the sprite onTap events
Teaching our penguin to fly
Improving the camera
Pushing Pierre forward
Checkpoint 4-B
Summary
5
Spawning Enemies, Coins, and Power-ups
Spawning Enemies, Coins, and Power-ups
Introducing the cast
Organizing the project navigator
Testing the new game objects
Checkpoint 5-A
Summary
6
Generating a Never-Ending World
Generating a Never-Ending World
Designing levels with the SpriteKit scene editor
Encounters in endless flying
Integrating scenes into the game
Checkpoint 6-A
Spawning endless encounters
Spawning the star power-up at random
Checkpoint 6-B
Summary
7
Implementing Collision Events
Implementing Collision Events
Learning the SpriteKit collision vocabulary
Adding contact events to our game
Checkpoint 7-A
Player health and damage
Collecting coins
The power-up star logic
Checkpoint 7-B
Summary
8
Polishing to a Shine – HUD, Parallax Backgrounds, Particles, and More
Polishing to a Shine – HUD, Parallax Backgrounds, Particles, and More
Adding a heads-up display
Parallax background layers
Checkpoint 8-A
Harnessing SpriteKit's particle system
Granting safety as the game starts
Checkpoint 8-B
Summary
9
Adding Menus and Sounds
Adding Menus and Sounds
Building the main menu
Adding the restart game menu
Checkpoint 9-A
Adding music and sound
Checkpoint 9-B
Summary
10
Integrating with Game Center
Integrating with Game Center
Registering an app with iTunes Connect
Authenticating the player's Game Center account
Opening Game Center in our game
Checkpoint 10-A
Adding a leaderboard of high scores
Adding an achievement
Checkpoint 10-B
Summary
11
Ship It! Preparing for the App Store and Publication
Ship It! Preparing for the App Store and Publication
Finalizing assets
Finalizing iTunes Connect information
Uploading our project from Xcode
Submitting for review in iTunes Connect
Summary
Index
Index

Are there any downsides to Swift?

Swift is a very enjoyable language, but we should consider these two issues when starting a new project.

Less resources

Given Swift's age, it is certainly more difficult to find answers to common questions through Internet searches. Objective-C has many years' worth of discussion and answers on helpful forums like Stack Overflow. This issue improves every day as the Swift community continues to develop.

Operating system compatibility

Swift projects will run on iOS7 and higher, and OSX 10.9 and higher. Swift is the wrong choice if, in a rare case, you need to target a device running an older operating system.

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