Swift Game Programming for Absolute Beginners

by Arjan Egges

Overview

"Concepts of game programming are explained well, and no prior knowledge of Swift language programming is required. ...  The images and audio provided are professional and clean." William Fahle, Computing Review, May 31, 2016

Swift Game Programming for Absolute Beginners teaches Apple’s Swift language in the context of four, fun and colorful games. Learn the Swift 2.0 language, and learn to create game apps for iOS at the same time – a double win!

The four games you’ll develop while reading this book are:

• Painter
• Tut’s Tomb
• Penguin Pairs
• Tick Tick

These four games are casual, arcade-style games representing the aim-and-shoot, casual, puzzle, and platform styles of game play. Professionally developed game assets form part of the book download. You’ll get professionally drawn sprites and imagery that’ll have you proud to show your learning to friends and family.

The approach in Swift Game Programming for Absolute Beginners follows the structure of a game rather than the syntax of a language. You’ll learn to create game worlds, manage game objects and game states, define levels for players to pass through, implement animations based upon realistic physics, and much more. Along the way you’ll learn the language, but always in the context of fun and games.

Swift is Apple’s new programming language introduced in 2014 to replace Objective-C as the main programming language for iOS devices and Mac OS X. Swift is a must learn language for anyone targeting Apple devices, and Swift Game Programming for Absolute Beginners provides the most fun you’ll ever have in stepping over the threshold toward eventual mastery of the language.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484206508
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	08/03/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	380
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Arjan Egges is an associate professor in Computer Science at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He is responsible there for research in the area of computer animation, and he heads the university s motion capture lab in the animation department. Arjan has written over 30 research papers on animation. He is the founder of the highly successful, annual ACM SIGGRAPH conference on Motion in Games, of which the proceedings have been published by Springer-Verlag. Arjan is responsible for having designed Utrecht University s computer animation course offerings in the Game and Media Technology master s program, and he is currently the leader of that master s program. In 2011 he designed the introductory programming course for the university s bachelor s degree offering in Game Technology. He is coauthor of the book Learn C# by Programming Games, published in 2013 by Springer.

Table of Contents

Part I: Getting Started

1. The Swift Language

2. Game Programming Basics

3. Creating a Game World

4. Game Assets

Part II: Painter

5. Knowing What the Player is Doing

6. Reacting to Player Input

7. Basic Game Objects

8. Game Object Types

9. Colors and Collisions

10. Limited Lives

11. Organizing Game Objects

12. Finishing the Painter Game

Part III: Galactic Waste

13. Adapting to Different Devices

14. Game Object Hierarchies

15. Game Physics

16. Game Object Interaction

17. Finishing the Galactic Waste Game

Part IV: Penguin Pairs

18. Sprite Sheets

19. Storing and Recalling Game Data

20. Pairing the Penguins

21. Finishing the Penguin Pairs Game

22. The Main Game Structure

23. Animation

Part V: Tick Tick

24. Platform Game Physics

25. Intelligent Enemies

26. Adding Player Interaction

27. Finishing the Tick Tick Game