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

What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support

1. Designing Games with Swift FREE CHAPTER

Why you will love Swift
Prerequisites
What you will learn in this book
New in Swift 3
Setting up your development environment
Exploring the SpriteKit demo
Examining the demo code
Cleaning up
Summary

2. Sprites, Camera, Action!

Sharpening our pencils
Checkpoint 2-A
Drawing your first sprite
Building a SKSpriteNode class
Adding animation to your toolkit
The story on positioning
Adding textures and game art
Designing for retina
Organizing your assets
Centering the camera on a sprite
Checkpoint 2-B
Summary

3. Mix in the Physics

Laying the foundation
Renovating the GameScene class
Exploring the physics system
Checkpoint 3-A
Exploring physics simulation mechanics
Bee meets bee
Checkpoint 3-B
Summary

4. Adding Controls

Retrofitting the Player class for flight
Assigning a physics body to the player
Polling for device movement with Core Motion
Checkpoint 4-A
Wiring up the sprite onTap events
Teaching our penguin to fly
Listening for touches in GameScene
Fine-tuning gravity
Spreading your wings
Improving the camera
Pushing Pierre forward
Tracking the player's progress
Checkpoint 4-B
Summary

5. Spawning Enemies, Coins, and Power-ups

Introducing the cast
Locating and adding the art assets
Adding the Power-up Star
Adding a new enemy - the Mad Fly
Another terror - Bats!
Guarding the ground - adding the Blade
Adding the coins
Organizing the project navigator
Testing the new game objects
Checkpoint 5-A
Preparing for endless flight
Summary

6. Generating a Never-Ending World

Designing levels with the SpriteKit scene editor
Encounters in endless flying
Checkpoint 6-A
Spawning endless encounters
Spawning the Power-up Star at random
Turning bronze coins to gold
Checkpoint 6-B
Summary

7. Implementing Collision Events

Learning the SpriteKit collision vocabulary
Adding contact events to our game
Assigning categories to game objects
Preparing GameScene for contact events
Checkpoint 7-A
Player health and damage
Animations for damage and game over
Checkpoint 7-B
Summary

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

Adding a HUD
Parallax background layers
Checkpoint 8-A
Harnessing SpriteKit's particle system
Granting safety as the game starts
Checkpoint 8-B
Summary

9. Adding Menus and Sounds

Building the main menu
Adding the restart game menu
Checkpoint 9-A
Adding music and sound
Playing sound effects
Checkpoint 9-B
Summary

10. Standing Out in the Crowd with Advanced Features

Adding fun crates to smash open
Recycling emitter nodes with particle pools
Checkpoint 10-A
Wiring up crate contact events
Adding a health crate
Smashing coin crates
Checkpoint 10-B
Summary

11. Choosing a Monetization Strategy

Developing your marketing plan
Leveraging crowdfunding
Showing display ads for revenue
Selling in-app purchases
Localization into foreign markets
Managing scope and completing projects
Summary

12. Integrating with Game Center

Registering an app with iTunes Connect
Creating a test user
Authenticating the player's Game Center account
Opening Game Center in our game
Checkpoint 10-A
Adding a leaderboard of high scores
Adding an achievement
Checkpoint 10-B
Summary

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

Finalizing assets
Designing the launch screen
Uploading our project from Xcode
Submitting for review in iTunes Connect
Summary

Checkpoint 10-A

To download my project up to this point, visit the following URL:

http://joyfulgames.io/chapter-10/.

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