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Section 1

Initital Setup and Swift/Sprite Kit Basics (optional for intermediate programmers)

In this section, we'll dip our toes in with both Swift and Sprite Kit and create the initial launch screen. If you've never programmed, we recommend you watch our (free) Swift and Sprite Kit Basics videos, but even without that as a primer you should be able to follow along just fine. And if you already are familiar with Swift and Sprite Kit, you might want to skip forward a session to where we actually begin programming the game. This session will finish up by creating an Xcode project which serves as a nice "Universal Starting Template" for the project to come. It will include an IntroScene (which could house menu options), that the player taps to transition to the GameScene class (the main game). Along the way, the video tutorials will teach new users about general Xcode project settings, SKSpriteNodes, SKLabelNodes, SKActions and transitioning scenes.

Section 2

The Player and Surrounding Environment

In these video tutorials, we will setup the Player's base, turret, ground and looping background with Swift and Sprite Kit.

Section 3

Game Play Loops

Game on! In this session we'll begin sending missiles and bombs for the player to deflect. We'll create custom classes and manage cleaning up items that leave the apps visible area.

Section 4

Collision Detection, Stats and all the rest!

In this session we will program interactions with Swift and SpriteKit to determine what happens when one thing collides with another. We'll also add more SKLabelNodes to track stats, score and the level, and polish off everything else in the game to make this Xcode project complete!

Category: Game Development  -   Primary Software: Xcode  -  
Tags:   classic games - cartridge - missile commando - swift - sprite kit - xcode