At WWDC 2014 Apple introduced a new programming language, Swift. At this point everyone has exactly zero days experience in Swift. This blog will capture and share our learning, and I hope the learnings of others as we go.
We continue our exploration of Swift 2.0, GameplayKit, and SpriteKit by using GKStateMachine to make our game behave a little more like a real game without making our standard code more complex.
Read MoreWe continue our playground exploration of GKGameplayKit, SpriteKit and Swift 2.0 by actually creating some player objects and helping them navigate their way around asking GKGridGraph's path finding abilities.
Read MoreiOS 9 and OS X El Capitan strengthen Apple's gaming line up with GameplayKit, which augments the graphics (and physics) engines with a game engine. Over the coming weeks I'm going to walk through the process of developing a "bomber man" style game using SpriteKit and GameplayKit.
The code will be supplied in a playground that will have a page for each blog entry. In general, I'll discuss concepts in the blog, and leave explanations of specific pieces of code in comments or Playground markup. There's going to be a lot to cover, so let's get started.
Read MoreMake the Swift 2.2 to 3.0 transition a little easier with these useful regular expressions for XCode
Time to update my Swift SpriteKit Playground example... now with added SpaceCats!
Even a simple text adventure contains all of the fundamentals of lexers, parsers, and interpreters. Using STLR to define the grammar, and its Swift code generation, we quickly create a simple adventure game in Swift.