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SpriteKit and Swift Part 1: Creating the Game Scene

http://kgoddard.net/tutorial/swift/xcode/spritekit/ios/2015/03/21/spritekit-swift-part-1-creating-game-scene.html

SpriteKit and Swift Part 1: Creating the Game Scene. Download this zip file before starting this section. Lesson 1.zip. Welcome to the first installment of this series of tutorials about game building with. There are already hundreds of tutorials on this subject, but the problem I have with many of the tutorials Ive seen is that while the information is good, the focus is so tight on. That good game design and good software development practices go down the spike pit. The horror, the shame of it all!

SpriteKit and Swift Part 2: Adding the Player

http://kgoddard.net/tutorial/swift/xcode/spritekit/ios/2015/03/31/spritekit-swift-part-2-adding-the-player.html

SpriteKit and Swift Part 2: Adding the Player. Download this zip file before starting this section. Lesson 2.zip. Previously: SpriteKit and Swift Part 1: Creating the Game Scene. Which is a subclass of. You can call this class whatever you like, just remember that the remainder of the tutorial will use the classnames I show here. Look through the contents of the zip file and add the image of the the space ship,. Firstly we create a string constant. Then we create a new constant called. Well the color tha...

SpriteKit and Swift Part 4: Moving the Player Ship

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SpriteKit and Swift Part 4: Moving the Player Ship. I was starting to think I should have called this Part 4: The Cursed Update. Its finally here! Part 4 of this series of tutorials covering SpriteKit and Swift. Sorry to those who have been waiting. Download this zip file before starting this section, which is the code for the finished project at the end of this tutorial. Lesson 4.zip. At the end of the tutorial you should have something similar to the following example below. What weve done here is move...

Great artists steal...

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Oh man have I been down this road before, starting my site and blog I mean. This time its gonna stick, I can feel it. Ive been working on reimplementing JVFloatingDrawer. The new project is called KGFloatingDrawer. And works as closely as possible to JVFloatingDrawer. Thanks to the brilliant work of a colleague of mine and his generous permission to wholesale copy the logic into. I now have the most popular project hosted on GitHub. That I have yet written. As of writing this its amassed 125 stars!

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