GameDoneSwift

Welcome to GameDoneSwift! Our first project tutorial on github!

How This Works

All the branches in this repo are set up as different sections of a tutorial series with the final product of creating a basic game in swift. The branches are as follows:

Brand-New-Project
- Where to go if you want to start the whole journey from the beginning.
Reticulating-Splines
- Details how to setup and link the game scene.
Lets-Get-Physical
- Setting up the physics of the game.
As-The-World-Turns
- Generating random infinite content.
Game-Over
- Adding final touches like music and reset.

This branch (master) contains the full completed game.

What To Expect

A simple introduction on how to use SpriteKit and Swift. Some basic Swift features such as guard statements and do-try-catch blocks will be used throughout the tutorial. You'll also learn the basics of the SpriteKit physics engine and how to add physics bodies to your sprites. The SpriteKit scene editor will be used, and instructions on how to set up a game scene using it will be detailed. We'll also give a very basic explanation on how game scenes work.

What Not To Expect

In general the code was written to be easy to follow, so a lot of higher level functionality available in Swift, iOS, and even SpriteKit won't be used. This also means that all code won't be optimized or written as modualar as possible (seriously, GameScene.swift gets pretty large by the end). Functions are seperated out in a logical way, but not necessarily the way they would be for a release candidate project. It is also assumed that you know how to use git. We don't plan on teaching how to navigate branches. If any of this bothers you, this probably isn't the tutorial you're looking for.

However, if all you want is a quick and dirty dive into SpriteKit then welcome aboard! You can start the tutorial over in the Brand-New-Project branch.

Time To Complete

Depending on how serious you take the tutorial, it should only take ~1 hour from start to finish.

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