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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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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

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

Laying the foundation

So far, we have learned through small bits of code, individually added to the GameScene class. The intricacy of our application is about to increase. To build a complex game world, we will need to construct re-usable classes and actively organize our new code.

Following protocol

To start, we want individual classes for each of our game objects (a bee class, a player penguin class, a power-up class, and so on). Furthermore, we want all of our game object classes to share a consistent set of properties and methods. We can enforce this commonality by creating a protocol, or a blueprint, for our game classes. The protocol does not provide any functionality on its own, but each class that adopts the protocol must follow its specifications exactly before Xcode can compile the project. Protocols are very similar to interfaces, if you are from a Java or C# background.

Add a new file to your project (right-click in the project navigator and choose New File, then Swift File) and...

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