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Sprite Kit is a 2D rendering engine from Apple for iOS and OS X games. It provides rendering and animation for sprites, basic sound playback support and physics simulation.

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I'm working on a Sprite Kit game. I'd like to make it a true multiplayer game, by which I mean that each person joining the game has their own camera. I've seen tutorials on multiplayer games where ...
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I am creating a music-based app for one of the courses I teach at a high school, so it's not for sale in the app store, it's only for my students to use. I decided to make it keyboard only partially ...
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I am creating a virtual gamepad for my game, It has one main SKSpriteNode with circle image and four child node(up, down, left, right) with image. When I am using default size for all it looks perfect ...
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Scenario: I have a game with several game objects on screen. Each can have different score and hitpoints. When I use collision detection for cannonball vs. ship (example) I need to know which ship is ...
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I really like the effect that I see in this video of Mario Party 10 Jewel Drop (at 2:40). It occurs when the four green orbs join together. You'll see a four items with long trails move to the top ...
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Is it possible to detect contact with every frame change when using an animation in SpriteKit? For example, if I have two nodes of a person walking, I want to detect contact with the ground each time ...
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I want to choose from 4 enemies using random and present it on scene. For that purpose I've made this: ...
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So basically I've got 2 types of balls and 2 types of enemies. Green can delete red only, red can hit delete only. Here's what I have for the first collision test: ...
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I'm developing a game like price wheel where I need to touch the correct answer. For now I find replies where people says: Set yScale of SKNode to -1. Or Set xScale of SKSpriteNode to xScale = ...
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I am using Sprite Kit to do game development. I would like like to design an archery with arrow. Should I use the arrow as one of the node? If so, it is a concern to have too many arrow on the screen, ...
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I've created a SpriteKit Mac OS X app and I am using a simple finite state machine to manage the game states. I've seen some solutions, especially for C++ games, where a GameState class and a ...
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I've been trying to figure this out exhaustively for the past few days and still haven't found an answer. I have an endless runner built using swift where the character is fixed and the terrain moves ...
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I've been trying draw level segments for an iOS endless runner using 2d elements that repeat forever. I have a class that generates a random 2d array, then scene elements are drawn and animated to ...
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The following code is what I'm working on to animate characters in a SK scene class. I can run the code without building, no problem, but I can't build it and run it; I get one error message: Binary ...
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I'm wondering if there is a way in spritekit to implement water flowing through a path? like this water flow Right now I'm generating the path using UIBezierPath and PaintCode Any suggestion? ...
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Recently I started working on a game with the spritekit engine. My question is not about spritekit in specific though, but generally about game engines. When I write a loop and run it (eg ...
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I am currently working on an iOS project called Old Frank that I have been trying to follow a MVC design pattern. The gist of it is. ...
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I am trying to launch my ball sprite towards the middle of the screen at the same speed every time I launch it. ...
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I have a entity called Item, and every item can have two or three bonuses... What would be a good model design in this situation. I can think of something like: To have many optional attributes ...
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I'm writing an original (top-down) SimCity clone in Swift and attempting to use SpriteKit as the basis for the game. However, I am running into performance issues when rendering and animating the tile ...
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the result of the angle between my touch and the middle,bottom of the screen gives me 180 when the touch is on the right side of the screen, and 0 when it is on the left. I don't understand why... <...
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I am writing a game in which I am representing a velocity with a vector. I have a starting point and a point that I want the object to move towards at a certain speed. (I need the resulting vector's x ...
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Would you know how to create a dash line that moves towards the direction of the target, and if it collides with a wall, goes to the opposite angle? I have seen atan2 but I am not sure what it does, ...
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I am trying to make it so that a SKShapeNode follows a UIBezierPath. Then when the screen is tapped it switches to another UIBezierPath to follow. I have this functionality working except that when ...
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There's a great question here that helps me a little bit in what I want to do, and it explains it quite well: How To Approach 360 Degree Snake Basically, I want to have a smooth 360-degrees Snake ...
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I'm trying to create a map of touchable hexagons and the playing area would be like in Catan game. I would like to use Sprite Kit to do the job but is it cabable of doing that? Process goes like ...
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I'm developing an application for iPhone with a screen where the user will track his progress. Something like so, as seen in the Two Dots game: Currently I plan on creating this using constraints and ...
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I've started trying a few things with Sprite Kit for Game Development. I was creating a brick breaking game. So I've run into a issue on how to randomize the initial starting direction of the ball. I ...
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Please bear with me as I've been spending some time lately trying to get a better grasp of some game dev fundamentals. My specific issue is a direct result of trying to apply what I've read about here:...
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I am building a game where the users (players) can build their own town. There they can build houses, add furniture to the houses etc etc. Basically similar to The Sims. I am using the Tiled Map ...
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I am trying to learn SpriteKit and play with some simple sample apps. Currently I am trying to achieve below things: Show keyboard over SKScene If user taps 'A', perform some action on a sprite node,...
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I have a background of a given size and filled with a given color. I want to change it with an animation effect, starting from the center and spread out until it extends the whole background. The new ...
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I was implementing Game Center into my app and all was going well except for the leaderboard done button not dismissing the leaderboard even with gameCenterControllerDidFinish added in. I call up the ...
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I am planning to place three cards on a view which I add to the background. However I wanted to combine two of the cards and replace the first card position with the new card position. Is there any ...
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I'm would like to achieve something like Object A will jump to position A in parabolic way. For example: I am able to make the object jump but i do not know how to calculate to make the object jump to ...
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I'm working on making an RPG in Xcode, and I'm having a major gameplay issue when it comes to having my character swing his sword in a way that is realistic and gameplay compatible. Right now, when ...
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So I am currently making a 1942-style game in Sprite Kit. I've reached the point where I am finished implementing pretty much everything (movement, shooting (also recognizing a hit and exploding an ...
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I have a spike and a ball is falling down, when the ball touches the top point of the spike, I want to make the ball invisible, and when it touches on the other part i.e on the sides I don't want to ...
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This question builds upon the following question: How can I achieve a good fire effect with alpha blending and particles? I want to achieve the visual effect of using ...
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I'm looking to create a game like Dino Run, where I will need to create large slopes for a level, procedurally generated. How do I go about this? Do I have to make certain predefined pieces of level ...
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First of all, note that I want to understand the principle, so I would prefer explanations in plain english (but of course I have nothing against some code to complement these explanations). I am ...
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I have a Sprite node with many 6 child nodes. Each are placed one after another in X-axis. I want to know the complete with of the Sksprite node. ...
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I would like to create a political map where each country is clickable by tapping but I'm not sure the best way to determine which nation was selected. Imagine Risk where each country can be ...
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I have a ball bouncing around the screen. I can pick it up and drag it onto a "bucket". When my touches finish, I use the containsPoint function to check and see if I have dropped the ball onto the ...
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I've been using spritekit for a while for a few small games. One thing I've noticed is that spritekit is the first game framework I've used that allows me to apply move actions to physics bodies. (...
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I'm developing a simple ball game in Sprite Kit. I need to predict the ball's trajectory, so I went back to my physics book for the equations for acceleration, time, speed and space. The problem is ...
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