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Swift Game Development

You're reading from Swift Game Development Learn iOS 12 game development using SpriteKit, SceneKit and ARKit 2.0

Product type Paperback

Published in Sep 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788471152

Length 434 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

ARKit

Concepts

Mobile Game Development

Authors (2):

Siddharth Shekar

Stephen Haney

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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Preface

1. Designing Games with Swift

2. Sprites, Camera, Action! FREE CHAPTER

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. Introduction to SceneKit

12. Choosing a Monetization Strategy

13. Integrating with Game Center

14. Introduction to Spritekit with ARKit

15. Introduction to Scenekit with ARKit

16. Publishing the Game on the App Store

17. Multipeer Augmented Reality

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Index

Chapter 6. Generating a Never-Ending World

The unique challenge of an endless flyer-style game is in procedurally generating a rich, entertaining game world that extends as far as your player can fly. We will first explore level design concepts and tooling in Xcode; Apple added a built-in level designer to Xcode 6, allowing developers to arrange nodes visually within a scene. Once we become familiar with the SpriteKit level design methodology, we will create a custom solution to generate our world. In this chapter, you will build an entertaining world for our penguin game and learn how to design and implement levels in SpriteKit for any genre of game.

The topics in this chapter include the following:

Designing levels with the SpriteKit scene editor
Building encounters for Pierre Penguin
Integrating scenes into the game
Looping encounters for a never-ending world
Adding the Power-up Star at random places
Turning bronze coins into gold coins

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Authors (2)

Siddharth Shekar

Siddharth Shekar

Siddharth Shekar is a game developer and teacher with over 6 years' industry experience and 12 years' experience in C++ and other programming languages. He is adept at graphics libraries such as OpenGL and Vulkan, and game engines such as Unity and Unreal. He has published games on the iOS and Android app stores. He has also authored books including Swift Game Development, Mastering Android Game Development with Unity, and Learning iOS 8 Game Development Using Swift, all published by Packt Publishing. He currently lives in Auckland, New Zealand, and is a lecturer in the games department at Media Design School. He teaches advanced computer graphics programming, PlayStation 4 native game development, and mentors final year production students.

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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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