Role Playing Games with Sprite Kit and Swift 3

Introduction to Sprite Kit

• Starting Assets (Subscribers Only)
• The Sprite Kit Starting Template (Free)
• Adding a Player with Physics Properties (Free)
• Introducing SKActions and Detecting Touches (Free)
• Action Groups / Sequences and Run Blocks (Free)
• Short Interlude to look at a Cross Platform Project (Free)
• Gesture Recognizers in Sprite Kit (Free)
• Detecting Physics Contacts Between Bodies (Free)
• Changing zPositions at Runtime and Making a Custom Class (Free)

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Making the Character Attack

• Starting Project Files (this link will always have the latest version of the art assets used throughout every section)
• Making the Character Attack
• The Attack Area Custom Class

Non Player Characters

• Non Player Character Introduction
• Parsing the Property List Data
• Adding the NPC to the Scene with Property List Data
• Making the NPC Walk Randomly Around the Scene
• Testing Physics Contacts Between NPC's and the Player
• Speaking to the NPC's
• Adding a Speech Icon and Review
• Project at the end of the NPC Session

Levels

• Level Introduction
• Splitting the GameScene into Extension Files for Organization
• Transitioning to alternate SKS Files based on Device
• Adding Tile Sprite for SKTileMapNodes
• Using SKReferenceNodes for GUI
• Remembering Properties Between Levels
• Adding Level Specific Properties
• Project at the end of the Levels Session

The World Item Class

• World Item Introduction
• Finding World Item Data in the Property List
• Making Items Portals to Other Levels
• Briefly Touching up the NPC Code
• Item Requirements and Info Text
• Switching Items to an Open Appearance
• Picking up a Castle Key and Adding it to Inventory
• Item Icons and Delaying Portal Entry
• Custom Info Time Variables and Level Rewards / Clearing out Inventory on Level Entry
• Time Based Opening of Items
• The RememberTo Dictionary and Alternate Portals
• Project Files at the end of the Item Session

The Player Class

• Player Introduction
• CGMutablePaths and SKShapeNodes that Display Paths
• Making the Player Follow a Path
• Adding Properties to the Player Clas
• Implementing an Alternate Track Pad Style Control to Move the Player
• Camera Changes for the iPad and Other Odds and Ends
• Throwing Projectiles
• Project files at the end of the Player Session

Buttons, GUI, and Inventory

• Adding Attack and Melee Buttons
• Veering Slightly When Walking
• Populating the Stats in Our GUI
• Adding to Currency, XP, and Changing the Player Classes
• Adding Health, Armor, Setup for Keeping Track of Ammo
• Switching Projectiles and Ammo Inventory
• Adding GUI for the other Inventory
• Project Files at the end of the Inventory Session

Enemies

This final session is in production right now, and will be released the last week of March / beginning of April!