"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.
Edition
Language
Place of publication
Publishing group
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Target group
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Thickness: 21 mm
Weight
ISBN-13
978-1-4842-0651-5 (9781484206515)
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4842-0650-8
Schweitzer Classification
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.
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
