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Swift 3 Game Development

You're reading from Swift 3 Game Development Build iOS 10 Games with Swift 3.0

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781787127753

Length 258 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

iOS

Concepts

Mobile Game Development

Author (1):

Stephen Haney

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Table of Contents (14) Chapters

Preface

1. Designing Games with Swift FREE CHAPTER

2. Sprites, Camera, Action!

3. Mix in the Physics

4. Adding Controls

5. Spawning Enemies, Coins, and Power-ups

6. Generating a Never-Ending World

7. Implementing Collision Events

8. Polishing to a Shine - HUD, Parallax Backgrounds, Particles, and More

9. Adding Menus and Sounds

10. Standing Out in the Crowd with Advanced Features

11. Choosing a Monetization Strategy

12. Integrating with Game Center

13. Ship It! Preparing for the App Store and Publication

New in Swift 3

The biggest feature in Swift 3 is syntax compatibility and stability. Apple is trying to refine its young, shifting language into its final foundational shape. Each successive update of Swift has introduced breaking syntax changes that made older code incompatible with the newest version of Swift; this is very inconvenient for developers. Going forward, Swift 3 aims to reach maturity and maintain source compatibility with future releases of the language. Swift 3 also features the following:

A package manager that will help grow the ecosystem
A more consistent, readable API and API guidelines that often result in less code for the same result
Improved tooling and bug fixes in the IDE, Xcode
Many small syntax improvements in consistency and clarity

Swift has already made tremendous steps forward as a powerful, young language. Now Apple is working on polishing Swift into a mature, production-ready tool. The overall developer experience improves with Swift 3.

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Authors (1)

Haney

Haney

Stephen Haney has written two books on iOS game development. He began his programming journey at the age of 8 years on a dusty, ancient laptop using BASIC. He has been fascinated with building software and games ever since. Now well versed in multiple languages, he enjoys programming as a creative outlet the most. He believes that indie game development is an art forman amazing combination of visual, auditory, and psychological challengesrewarding to both the player and the creator. He enjoyed writing this book and sincerely hopes that it directly furthers your career or hobby.

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