Playing with SpriteKit in a Swift Playground - Update

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Playing with SpriteKit in a Swift Playground - Update

Time to update my Swift SpriteKit Playground example... now with added SpaceCats!

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Using Swift GameplayKit to achieve rendering framework independence

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Using Swift GameplayKit to achieve rendering framework independence

In the last article we looked at providing a better (and purely Swift) implementation of GameplayKit's Entity/Component architecture. By better I didn't mean "it's Swift so it's better"... I meant better at solving the stated objectives of GameplayKit: Rendering framework independence and composition. I focused on composition last time, this time I look at how the Swift GameplayKit implementation (and Swift itself) makes rendering framework independence easy. 

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Demolition Page 1 - Making Levels

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Demolition Page 1 - Making Levels

iOS 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. 

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