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Swift Game Development - Third Edition

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Product type Book

Published in Sep 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788471152

Pages 434 pages

Edition 3rd Edition

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Mobile Game Development

Authors (2):

Siddharth Shekar

Stephen Haney

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Swift Game Development Third Edition

Contributors

Preface

Other Books You May Enjoy

1. Designing Games with Swift

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. 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

Index

Summary

You have already accomplished a lot. You have had your first experience with Swift, installed and configured your development environment, launched code successfully into the iOS simulator, and prepared your project for the first steps toward your own game. Great work!

We have seen enough of the "Hello World" demo; are you ready to draw your own graphics to the game screen? We will make use of sprites, textures, colors, and animation in Chapter 2, Sprites, Camera, Action!

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Authors (2)

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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Stephen 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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