IOS Swift Game Development Cookbook

📖 The Scoop

Ready to make amazing games for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch? With Apple's Swift programming language, it's never been easier. This updated cookbook provides detailed recipes for a managing wide range of common iOS game-development issues, ranging from 2D and 3D math to SpriteKit and OpenGL to performance--all revised for Swift.

You get simple, direct solutions to common problems found in iOS game programming. Need to figure out how to give objects physical motion, or want a refresher on gaming-related math problems? This book provides sample projects and straightforward answers. All you need to get started is some familiarity with iOS development, Swift, and Objective-C.

• Design the architecture and code layout of your game
• Build and customize menus with UIKit
• Detect and respond to user input
• Use techniques to play sound effects and music
• Learn different ways to store information for later use
• Create 2D graphics with SpriteKit
• Create 3D graphics with SceneKit
• Add two-dimensional physics simulation
• Learn beginning, intermediate, and advanced 3D graphics with OpenGL
• Create challenges with artificial intelligence
• Take advantage of game controllers and external displays

Genre: Computers / Programming / Games (fancy, right?)