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Swift 3 Game Development - Second Edition

By : Stephen Haney
Book Image

Swift 3 Game Development - Second Edition

By: Stephen Haney

Overview of this book

Swift is the perfect choice for game development. Developers are intrigued by Swift 3.0 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. This book starts by introducing SpriteKit and Swift's new features that can be used for game development. After setting up your first Swift project, you will build your first custom class, learn how to draw and animate your game, and add physics simulations. Then, you will add the player character, NPCs, and powerups. To make your game more fun and engaging, you will learn how to set up scenes and backgrounds, build fun menus, and integrate with Apple Game Center to add leaderboards and achievements. You will then make your game stand out by adding animations when game objects collide, and incorporate proven techniques such as the advanced particle system and graphics. Finally, you will explore the various options available to start down the path towards monetization and publish your finished games to the App Store. By the end of this book, you will be able to create your own iOS games using Swift and SpriteKit.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Swift 3 Game Development - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Teaching our penguin to fly


Let's implement the control scheme for our penguin. The player can tap anywhere on the screen to make Pierre fly higher and release to let him fall. We are going to make quite a few changes-if you need help, refer to the checkpoint at the end of this chapter. Start by modifying the Player class; follow these steps to prepare our Player for flight:

  1. In Player.swift, add some new properties directly to the Player class:

            // Store whether we are flapping our wings or in free-fall: 
            var flapping = false 
            // Set a maximum upward force. 
            // 57,000 feels good to me, adjust to taste: 
            let maxFlappingForce:CGFloat = 57000 
            // Pierre should slow down when he flies too high: 
            let maxHeight:CGFloat = 1000 
    
  2. So far, Pierre has been flapping his wings by default. Instead, we want to display the soaring animation by default and only run the flap animation when the user presses the screen. In the init function, remove the line...