Swift Basics for Game Developers - Lifetime Access
Jumpstart your knowledge of Swift 2, SpriteKit and Xcode 7 with this simple, quickly-paced series of lessons. In just 90 minutes, you'll be tossing around physics-based objects in a SpriteKit based project, ready to start production on your first game or app.
Also included are all of our Swift 1.0 and Sprite Kit video tutorials.
| Module 1 | Swift 2 Basics | |
| These first five video tutorials will teach you how to get setup in Xcode, and start programming with Swift right away. To get the most of it, you should be using Xcode 7 (or higher) and programming in Swift 2 (although Swift 1.2 would be fine as well). We'll talk about basic programming concepts in Swift 2, such as variables, functions, optionals, arrays, and dictionaries. | ||
| Unit 1 | Swift 2.0 Basics Tutorials - Variables and Optionals | |
| Unit 2 | Swift 2.0 Basics Tutorials - Functions - Parameters and Returning Values | |
| Unit 3 | Swift 2.0 Basics Tutorials - Enum Types and Swift Statements | |
| Unit 4 | Swift 2.0 Basics Tutorials - Iterating through Arrays | |
| Unit 5 | Swift 2.0 Basics Tutorials - Iterating through Dictionaries to look up keys and values | |
| Module 2 | Swift 2 and Sprite Kit | |
| In this series of video tutorials we will discuss Swift 2 as it applies to Sprite Kit. Topics include using SKSpriteNodes, safely casting types, subclassing, physics bodies, SKCameraNodes, SKActions, detecting SKPhysicsContacts and more. | ||
| Unit 1 | Swift 2.0 and SpriteKit Basics - Importing Images and Safely Casting SKNodes and SKSpriteNodes | |
| Unit 2 | Swift 2.0 and SpriteKit Basics - Enumerating through all child nodes (even SKReferenceNodes) | |
| Unit 3 | Swift 2.0 and SpriteKit Basics - Subclassing using the Custom Class Inspector in Xcode 7 | |
| Unit 4 | Swift 2.0 and SpriteKit Basics - Introduction to Physics and tracking with SKCameraNodes | |
| Unit 5 | Swift 2.0 and SpriteKit Basics - SKActions and the especially useful RunBlock action | |
| Unit 6 | Swift 2.0 and SpriteKit Basics - Detecting physics collisions with SKPhysicsContact | |
| Unit 7 | Swift 2 and SpriteKit Basics - Demo Project | |
| Module 3 | Swift 1.0 Basics - Video Tutorials | |
| In this series of video tutorials, Justin Dike teach some of the basic things you can do with Swift in Xcode. If you’re completely new to programming or just need a little refresher, this is a great starter tutorial series. | ||
| Unit 1 | Swift Basics - Part 1 - Xcode First Timers | |
| Unit 2 | Swift Basics - Part 2 - Variables, Optionals and Forced Unwrapping | |
| Unit 3 | Swift Basics - Part 3 - Functions | |
| Unit 4 | Swift Basics - Part 4 - If Statements | |
| Unit 5 | Swift Basics - Part 5 - Enumerations | |
| Unit 6 | Swift Basics - Part 6 - Arrays, Dictionaries, and For Loops | |
| Unit 7 | Swift Basics - Part 7 - Classes and Structs | |
| Unit 8 | Swift Basics - Part 8 - Classes Continued | |
| Unit 9 | Swift Basics - Part 9 - Subclasses | |
| Module 4 | Learn as I Learn – Sprite Kit & Swift 1.0 Video Tutorials | |
| In this video tutorial series, you can learn right along with Justin Dike during his first week using Swift with Sprite Kit. Although, Justin is very comfortable with Sprite Kit, these videos were recorded over his first 5 days with Swift, so this series is a bit more off-the-cuff, experimental, and reveals some of his initial “ah-ha” moments with the language. | ||
| Unit 1 | Day 1 - Learning Swift and Sprite Kit - The Starting Project | |
| Unit 2 | Day 2 - Learning Swift and Sprite Kit - Early Physics Look | |
| Unit 3 | Day 3- Learning Swift and Sprite Kit - Part 1 Enum Types | |
| Unit 4 | Day 3 - Learning Swift and Sprite Kit - Part 2 - Update Function | |
| Unit 5 | Day 4 - Learning Swift and Sprite Kit - Initialize with a Dictionary, For Loops and More Physics | |
| Unit 6 | Day 5 - Learn Swift and Sprite Kit - Physics Contact Listeners | |
