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Tag: SpriteKit
Make a Clock In Sprite Kit: Adding a Button for a Stopwatch
In the clock app so far, we have a date and a time. We can switch between them by tapping the screen of our phone. Most apps use a button for this, and it’s time we added our first button. Our app will now… Continue Reading “Make a Clock In Sprite Kit: Adding a Button for a Stopwatch”
The Slippy Flippy Challenge: Make Active Boundaries in Sprite Kit.
In Flappy Bird, hitting the top or bottom boundaries ends the game. They also convey a sense of motion. The boundaries make for a better playing experience. Last time, we set up collision detection, but we need boundaries that are sprites. Sprite node boundaries… Continue Reading “The Slippy Flippy Challenge: Make Active Boundaries in Sprite Kit.”
Living Without Storyboards: Make a Clock with Sprite Kit
Sprite Kit — it’s not just for games anymore. Sprite Kit is of course meant to write games, a full 2-d game engine waiting for use inside Xcode and iOS7. While simulating buttons writing SlippyFlippyPenguin, I began to realize there’s a lot more here… Continue Reading “Living Without Storyboards: Make a Clock with Sprite Kit”
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… Continue Reading “The Slippy Flippy Dare: Making a Basic Obstacle”
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… Continue Reading “SlippyFlippy 1.1: Adding a Fading-in and out Label with Background in SpriteKit”
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… Continue Reading “SlippyFlippy 1.1: Making a High and Low Score Indicator”
The Slippy Flippy Challenge: How to Program a Basic Sprite in Sprite Kit.
The Slippy Flippy challenge was a success. The app was written in one week, debugged in another, and submitted it to the iTunes store in the third. Now a week of waiting to see what Apple thinks of it. But how did I do… Continue Reading “The Slippy Flippy Challenge: How to Program a Basic Sprite in Sprite Kit.”
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