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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

Summary


In this chapter, we saw how to make a 3D game in SceneKit. From making simple geometries to making floors, we created a fully-fledged game with a complete game loop. We added a scene already created in a 3D software package with animation and imported it into SceneKit.

We imported the COLLADA objects into the scene and saw how to access the objects through code. We added an enemy and physics to the scene. We used SceneKit's physics engine to calculate collision and also applied force to hero objects.

Additionally, we also saw how to integrate SpriteKit into SceneKit to display the score and buttons on the scene. We also used SpriteKit's touchBegan function to detect touches on the screen and created the play and jump buttons.

Parallax scrolling was also added to the scene using planes. Also, we looked at different types of maps, such as diffuse, normal, and specular maps, and the functionality of each. Finally, we added a rain particle system and character animation to the scene.