Tag: SlippyFlippy

• April 30, 2014

  The SlippyFlippy Challenge: Make a Better Obstacle in Sprite Kit

  

  Build a Better Obstacle In the SlippyFlippy challenge we have a small obstacle. In Flappy Bird there are two obstacles which the bird has to pass between.  Let’s change our current obstacle into a pass-through obstacle like Flappy Bird.   Make a Random Obstacle Our current obstacle is a bit boring. It always shows up […]
• April 3, 2014

  The Slippy Flippy Dare: Making a Basic Obstacle

  

  To make a game fun there must be a challenge. One of those challenges is some obstacle in your path or headed towards you.  In both Flappy Bird and SlippyFlippyPenguin that  obstacle is a large rectangle with a gap in it. Your job is to get through the gap. If you do, you  score a  […]
• April 1, 2014

  SlippyFlippy 1.1: Adding a Fading-in and out Label with Background in SpriteKit

  

  Today we have a bug to deal with in SlippyFlippyPenguin. There are a two reports of when a user selects the hard skill level  the game  immediately goes to game over. I cannot find anything that is different in the code to account for this except user error. I think the user error is users […]
• March 31, 2014

  SlippyFlippy 1.1: Making a High and Low Score Indicator

  

  This is the first of my improvements to the SlippyFlippy penguin game.  While this may not make sense since I have not posted all the game code yet, it might help those trying to come up with some of these solutions for their own games. While playing against  some of my friends on our different […]