iOS Swift Game Development Cookbook

Simple Solutions for Game Development Problems

Paris Buttfield-Addison, Jonathon Manning (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2018 | 3. Auflage
O'Reilly Media (Verlag)
978-1-4919-9908-0 (ISBN)

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Ready to create amazing games for iOS? With Apple’s Swift programming language, it’s never been easier. This updated cookbook provides detailed recipes for managing a wide range of common iOS game-development issues, ranging from architecture design to graphics to performance—all revised for the latest version of 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 and Swift.

Lay out your game’s structure and organize its contents
Build your interface and customize menus with UIKit
Design your game to detect and respond to user input
Work with sound effects, music, and speech synthesis
Store and access data for later use with iCloud
Create and animate 2D graphics with SpriteKit
Simulate physics to make game movements feel realistic
Create and render 3D scenes with SceneKit
Test users by designing an AI system that thinks ahead

Paris Buttfield-Addison is co-founder of Secret Lab, an indie game and app development studio in Hobart, Australia. He spends his time designing video and board games, and mobile apps, and is also co-author of more than a dozen technical books, mostly for O'Reilly - recently Learning Swift and a book on the Kerbal Space Program video game.

Jon Manning is co-founder of Secret Lab, and is a software engineering expert in Swift, C#, and Objective-C. Jon builds games and apps at Secret Lab for clients from around the world, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Qantas, and Meebo (acquired by Google). Jon has co-authored more than a dozen technical books, and has a PhD in Computing.

Erscheinungsdatum	18.10.2018
Verlagsort	Sebastopol
Sprache	englisch
Maße	184 x 232 mm
Gewicht	626 g
Einbandart	kartoniert
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Betriebssysteme / Server ► iOS
	Informatik ► Betriebssysteme / Server ► Macintosh / Mac OS X
	Informatik ► Programmiersprachen / -werkzeuge ► Mac / Cocoa Programmierung
	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► Mobile- / App-Entwicklung
	Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► Spieleprogrammierung
Schlagworte	Cookbook • iOS, Spiele programmieren, Spieleprogrammierung, Spiele-App, App-Entwicklung • Swift Apps
ISBN-10	1-4919-9908-X / 149199908X
ISBN-13	978-1-4919-9908-0 / 9781491999080
Zustand	Neuware