Swift Game Development - Third Edition

Swift Game Development - Third Edition

By : Siddharth Shekar, Stephen Haney

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Swift Game Development - Third Edition

By: Siddharth Shekar, Stephen Haney

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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.

Swift Game Development Third Edition

Contributors

Preface

Other Books You May Enjoy

Free Chapter

Designing Games with Swift

Why you will love Swift

Prerequisites

What you will learn in this book

New in Swift 4.2

Setting up your development environment

Exploring the SpriteKit demo

Examining the demo code

Cleaning up

Summary

Sprites, Camera, Action!

Preparing your project

Drawing your first sprite

Building a SKSpriteNode class

Animation—movement, scaling, and rotation

The story on positioning

Working with textures

Designing for Retina

Organizing art into texture atlases

Centering the camera on a sprite

Summary

Mix in the Physics

Laying the foundations

Renovating the GameScene class

Physics bodies and gravity

Exploring physics simulation mechanics

Bumping bees into bees

Summary

Adding Controls

Retrofitting the Player class for flight

Assigning a physics body to the player

Polling for device movement with Core Motion

Wiring up the sprite onTap events

Teaching our penguin to fly

Listening for touches in GameScene

Fine-tuning gravity

Spreading your wings

Improving the camera

Pushing Pierre forward

Tracking the player's progress

Summary

Spawning Enemies, Coins, and Power-Ups

Introducing the cast

Locating and adding the art assets

Adding the Power-up Star

A new enemy - the Mad Fly

Another terror - Bats!

Guarding the ground with the Blade

Adding coins

Organizing the project navigator

Testing the new game objects

Preparing for endless flight

Summary

Generating a Never-Ending World

Designing levels with the SpriteKit scene editor

Building encounters for Pierre Penguin

Looping encounters for a never-ending world

Adding the Power-up Star at random places

Turning bronze coins into gold coins

Summary

Implementing Collision Events

Learning the SpriteKit collision vocabulary

Collision versus contact

Physics category masks

Using category masks in Swift

Adding contact events to our game

Assigning categories to game objects

Preparing GameScene for contact events

Viewing console output

Testing our contact code

Player health and damage

Animations for damage and game over

The Power-up Star logic

Summary

Polishing to a Shine – HUD, Parallax Backgrounds, Particles, and More

Adding a HUD

Parallax background layers

Using the particle system

Creating a SpriteKit particle file

Configuring the path particle settings

Adding the particle emitter to the game

Granting safety as the game starts

Summary

Adding Menus and Sounds

Building the main menu

Wiring up the START GAME button

Wiring up GameScene for game over

Informing the GameScene class when the player dies

Implementing touch events for the restart menu

Adding music with AVAudio

Playing sound effects

Adding Options to the Menu Scene

Summary

Standing out in the Crowd with Advanced Features

Adding crates to smash open

Creating the Crate particle effects

Recycling emitter nodes with particle pools

Wiring up crate contact events

Creating the health power-up crate

Spawning smashable crates that reward coins

Summary

Introduction to SceneKit

Creating a Scene with SCNScene

Adding objects to the scene

Importing scenes from an external 3D application

Creating the hero class and physics

Adding an enemy and collision detection

Adding a SpriteKit overlay

Adding labels and buttons

Adding touch interactivity

Adding the Gameloop

Adding wall and floor parallax

Adding particles

Adding character animation

Summary

Choosing a Monetization Strategy

Developing your marketing plan

Leveraging crowdfunding

Showing display ads for revenue

Adding an AdMob Ad in the App

Selling in-app purchases

Adding In-App Purchases

Localization in foreign markets

Managing scope and completing projects

Summary

Integrating with Game Center

Authenticating the player's Game Center account

Opening Game Center in our game

Updating the leaderboard from the code

Adding an achievement

Summary

Introduction to Spritekit with ARKit

Requirements for the project

Creating an AR Spritekit project

Adding text and crosshair

Adding anchors at random locations

Adding custom sprite

Registering touch controls to remove game objects

Summary

Introduction to Scenekit with ARKit

Going through the basic Scenekit/ARKit project

Project setup and detecting a plane

Adding touches

Adding Game Objects

Adding Score and Gameover text

Finishing touches

Summary

Publishing the Game on the App Store

Creating the Bundle ID for the app

Preparing the project

Create the App in the itunesconnect portal

Upload the App and submit for review

Summary

Multipeer Augmented Reality

Multipeer connectivity framework overview

Creating the multipeer session class

Creating a UI for the app

Setting outlets and adding variables

Testing the application

Summary

Index

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Chapter 1. Designing Games with Swift

Apple's newest version of its flagship programming language, Swift 4.2, is the perfect choice for game developers. As it matures, Swift is realizing its potential to be something special, a revolutionary tool for app creators. Swift is the gateway for developers to create the next big game in the Apple ecosystem. We have only started to explore the wonderful potential of mobile gaming, and Swift is the modernization we need for our toolset. Swift is fast, safe, current, and attractive to developers coming from other languages. Whether you are new to the Apple world, or a seasoned veteran of Objective-C, I think you will enjoy making games with Swift.

Apple's website states the following:

"Swift is a successor to the C and Objective-C languages."

My goal in this book is to guide you step by step through the creation of a 2D and a 3D game for iPhones and iPads. We will start with installing the necessary software, working through each layer of game development, ultimately publishing our new game to the App Store.

We will also have some fun along the way! For the 2D game, we aim to create an endless flyer game featuring a magnificent flying penguin named Pierre. What is an endless flyer? Picture hit games such as iCopter, Flappy Bird, Whale Trail, Jetpack Joyride, and many more—the list is quite long.

Endless flyer games are popular on the App Store, and the genre necessitates that we cover many reusable components of 2D game design. I will show you how to modify our mechanics to create many different game styles.

For the 3D game, we will be using SceneKit. Like SpriteKit, which is used to develop 2D games, SceneKit is a framework developed by Apple to make 3D games. The 3D game we will be an obstacle avoidance game, in which there will be obstacles players will have to either go under or jump over.

In later chapters, we will see how to make augmented reality games using Apple's newest framework, ARKit. With ARKit, you can make really stunning augmented reality games. We will see see how to develop AR games using SpriteKit and SceneKit. Along with developing a 2D AR game, we will also see how to bring the SceneKit game we developed for 3D to life using the ARKit. In addition, we will also see how to create a Multipeer Augemented Reality App using ARKit and Multipeer Connectivity framework.

My hope is that our demo project will serve as a template for your own creative tasks. Before you know it, you will be publishing your own game ideas using the techniques we explore together.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

Why you will love Swift
What you will learn in this book
New in Swift 4.2
Setting up your development environment
Creating your first Swift game
Exploring the SpriteKit demo

Swift Game Development - Third Edition

By : Siddharth Shekar, Stephen Haney

Swift Game Development - Third Edition

By: Siddharth Shekar, Stephen Haney

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