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Swift 3 Game Development

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

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Product type Paperback
Published in Feb 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787127753
Length 258 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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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

Retrofitting the Player class for flight


We need to perform a few quick setup tasks before we can react to player input. We will remove some of our older testing code and add a physics body to the Player class.

The Beekeeper

First, clean up the old bee physics tests from the last chapter. Open GameScene.swift, find didMove and locate the bottom two lines; one sets a mass for bee2, and the other applies an impulse to bee2. Remove these two lines:

bee2.physicsBody?.mass = 0.2 
bee2.physicsBody?.applyImpulse(CGVector(dx: -25, dy: 0)) 

Updating the Player class

We need to give the Player class its own update function. We want to store player-related logic in Player and we need it to run before every frame:

  1. Open Player.swift and add the following function inside Player:

            func update() { } 
    
  2. In GameScene.swift, add this code at the bottom of the GameScene class:

            override func update(_ currentTime: TimeInterval) { 
                player.update() 
            } 
    
  3. Perfect. The GameScene class will...

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