Introduction
What This Book Is
This book serves as a guide to help you make your own iPhone game. The goal is to help you create a simple 2D game from scratch using the new programming framework provided by Apple called “Sprite Kit.” By using Sprite Kit to create your game, you will find that a lot of things that you would normally have to code yourself handled for you. You’ll be amazed at how little code it takes to create animated characters (sprites) that can interact with each other as they move around the screen.
As you work your way through this book, you will create a fairly simple (old-school style) 2D game for the iPhone that allows users to control a character using their fingers on the touch screen. We’ll add some bad guys to give ...
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