Building the main menu

We can use SpriteKit components to build our main menu. We will create a new scene in a new file for our main menu, and then use code to place a background sprite node, a logo text node, and button sprite nodes. Let's start by adding the menu scene to the project and building out the nodes.

Creating the menu scene and menu nodes

To create the menu scene, follow these steps:

1. You already added the background texture assets in Chapter 8, Polishing to a Shine—HUD, Parallax Backgrounds, Particles, and More. To double-check, open Assets.xcassets and locate the Backgrounds Sprite Atlas. You should have a sprite called background-menu with the background textures for the menu scene. If not, you can find these two textures in the Backgrounds folder of the asset bundle.

2. Add a new Swift file to your project named MenuScene.swift.

3. Add the following code to create the MenuScene scene class:

           import SpriteKit 
    
           class MenuScene: SKScene { 
               // Grab the HUD sprite...