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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

Preparing GameScene for contact events


Now that we have assigned the physics categories to our game objects, we can monitor for contact events in the GameScene class. Follow these steps to wire up the GameScene class:

  1. First, we need to tell the GameScene class to implement the SKPhysicsContactDelegate protocol. SpriteKit can then inform the GameScene class when contact events occur. Change the GameScene class declaration line to look like this:

            class GameScene: SKScene, SKPhysicsContactDelegate { 
    
  2. We will tell SpriteKit to inform GameScene of contact events by setting the GameScene physicsWorld contactDelegate property to the GameScene instance. At the bottom of the GameScene didMove function, add this line:

            self.physicsWorld.contactDelegate = self 
    
  3. SKPhysicsContactDelegate defines a didBegin function that will fire when contact occurs. We can now implement this didBegin function in the GameScene class. Create a new function in the GameScene class named didBegin,...