iOS 9 Game Development Essentials电子书

iOS 9 Game Development Essentials

Table of Contents

iOS 9 Game Development Essentials

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Downloading the color images of this book

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. The Swift Programming Language

Hello World!

No more semicolons

Variables, constants, and primitive data types

Variables

Constants

More about constants…

Arrays, matrices, sets, and dictionaries

Arrays

2D arrays / matrices

Sets

Dictionaries

Mutable/immutable collections

Editing/accessing collection data

Iterating through collection types

Objective-C and Swift comparison

Objective-C

Swift

Characters and strings

String Interpolation

Mutating strings

String indices

Commenting in Swift

Boolean

Ints, UInts, floats, and doubles

Integers and unsigned integers

Floats and doubles

Objects in Swift

Type safety and type inference

Optionals

Unwrapping optionals

Optional binding and chaining

Control flow in Swift

If statements

For loops

Do-while loops

Switch statements

Functions and classes

Functions

Tuples

Classes

Summary

2. Structuring and Planning a Game Using iOS 9 Storyboards and Segues

Model-View-Controller

An iOS app's lifecycle

The main() function

The UIApplication class/object

The AppDelegate class

View controllers

View controller types

Storyboards and segues

Segues

Storyboards versus coding

Summary

3. SpriteKit and 2D Game Design

A brief history of iOS game development engines

The game loop

Tile game – SwiftSweeper

What is SwiftSweeper?

Creating our SpriteKit game

An overview of the SpriteKit structure and objects

Scene transitions and the choice of code, storyboards, and/or SKS files

An SKTransition example

A SKScene/storyboard example

SKScene transitions with SKS files

Assets, sprites, and icons

Sprite atlases and animating sprites

Creating our game logic

GameBoard

Putting it all together in GameScene.swift

DemoBots

Summary

4. SceneKit and 3D Game Design

SceneKit basics and working with nodes

SpriteKit / SceneKit interactivity

The issue with inheritance-based structuring and game design

Our first SceneKit scene – the Xcode template

SceneKit project flow and structure

SceneKit Debugging Options

Handling user input in SceneKit

SceneKit features introduced in iOS 9 / Xcode 7

Audio nodes and 3D sound

Ambience and music

SpriteKit scene transitions in SceneKit

Fox demo

Particle systems

Placing particles into our pioscene

SpriteKit

SceneKit

Introducing SceneKit and SpriteKit physics

Visually composed game scenescgs

Summary

5. GameplayKit

Entities and components

Using GKEntity and GKComponent objects in our games

State machines

Agents, goals, and behaviors

Pathfinding

MinMaxAI

Random sources

Rule systems

Summary

6. Exhibit the Metal in Your Game

The Apple Metal API and the graphics pipeline

CPU/GPU framework levels

Graphics pipeline overview

What are shaders?

Types of shaders

Why is Metal faster than OpenGL ES?

The basic Metal object/code structure

Summary

7. Publishing Our iOS Game

The ever changing process of app submission

Before submitting your app

Preparing our apps for iTunes Connect

Submitting your app in the testing/beta phase

Creating an iTunes Connect app record

Updating the build string

Archive and validate your app

Upload your app to iTunes Connect

Beta test your game with the TestFlight service

External tester invites

Analyzing crash reports and feedback from testers

Submitting your game for review

Updating your game

Summary

8. The Future of iOS Game Development

A greater focus on functional programming

The Apple Watch

Component-based structuring

The rise of VR

Summary

Index