iOS Game Development: Swift 2.0 and SpriteKit

Want to build games for the iPhone and iPad? With SpriteKit, the graphics engine built into Xcode, and Swift, Apple's open-source programming language, you can quickly build complete, full-featured iOS games. In this course, Todd Perkins provides a simple introduction to SpriteKit: adding and modifying sprites, building relationships between parent and child sprites, and building the scenes where your content is housed. Then he shows how to add the physics, collisions, and actions to make sprites reactive during gameplay. Plus, learn how to add other features that enrich the gaming experience, such as audio, animation, particle effects, cameras, and realistic lighting.

Topics include:

• Creating a new SpriteKit project
• Adding and modifying sprites
• Transitioning between scenes
• Removing child sprites from parents
• Working with gravity, forces, and impulses
• Detecting collisions
• Applying particle effects
• Creating actions and action sequences
• Working with audio
• Creating frame animations
• Using cameras and lights