Apple Game Frameworks and Technologies (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
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I was just informed that on some newer versions of Xcode and iOS, the GameScene is not loading, and instead shows a gray scr...
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Under “Add Pathfinding to your game” (under chapter 13 „Planning Routes and Creating Believable AI“) there is a paragraph about add/editi...
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Has anyone else run into this error message? Class not decoded 'valsrevenge.HealthComponent'
I have seen this when trying to run the exa...
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Title: Apple Game Frameworks and Technologies: Scrolling background (page 120-124)
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I think the code proposed is missing an else; in case the user moves outside the pad (where the node does not start with “co...
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Alternatively, you can use the class name instead, like this:
player = childNode(withName: “Player”) as? Pl...
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The title on page 95 says:
Use Variables to Monitor Game States
The first sentence after that title says:
In a game like Gloop Drop, y...
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Pages 89-90 references the Info.plist in the project. That no longer is include when a user creates a project with the Sprite Kit templat...
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Knife throw not working in later chapters.
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at the start of the gam...
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Title: Apple Game Frameworks and Technologies: Collision Detection page 84
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In the code, I changed the coordinates of the f...
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I am having a problem adding the Health Meter for the player in valsrevenge. I’m using Xcode 12. As instructed. I am using the Componen...
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Xcode: Version 13.1 (13A1030d)
MacOS: 11.6.1 (20G224)
I’m stuck for a while waiting for my Apple Developer account to get approved. Alt...
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On Chapter 2. Adding Animation and Movement with Actions • 50
the distance is calculated using the Hypotenuse.
let distance = ...
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How can I make sure the the xcproj example files are safe? And contain no harmful software when running in Xcode
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Does anyone have access to the resource folder? Can’t find it anywhere. I can’t continue without using the assets
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Please put the note about ignoring Xcode warnings before the code.
The bottom of page 66 adds three func overrides which Xcode declares ...
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In the paragraph that begins “Switch to the GameScene.sks file” I am clearly doing something wrong. When I right-click on the controller ...
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First, I want to thank @Paradox927 Tammy. This is a great book, and I’m having a ball going through it.
In the “Setting up the Physics B...
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@Paradox927 - Just curious to know how you came up with 255 when calculating the speed, on page 60 in the PDF.
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let calculatedSp...
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And I wrote a review of it.
Great job, @Paradox927!
It’s a huge topic, but you did great IMO.
I really enjoyed it. :+1:t2:
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if let localPlayer = gameCenterData?.getLocalPlayer() {
if let index = game...
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Title: Apple Game Frameworks and Technologies: currentPlayer = nil (page 412)
Given my recent track record on my problem posts, I would ...
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Title: Name of book: Apple Game Frameworks and Technologies: Show the Game Center Dashboard failing (page 383…)
At the risk of embarrass...
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Title: Changes to GameScene+PhysicsContact
(I understand, it may be to late in your process to make such a change, but I’ll share here a...
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Title: Apple Game Frameworks and Technologies: Dungeon tiles not “there” for Scenes 2 & 3 (page 361)
When I copy over GameScene_2.sk...
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In the “Animate the Monsters: Defining the Game Objects” sub-section of chapter 11, it specifies to add a property in the AnimationCompon...
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Title: Apple Game Frameworks and Technologies: Need to add PhysicsComponent to Val (Chapter 12)
After working through the code in Chapte...
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Title: Apple Game Frameworks and Technologies: Val’s revenge background doesn’t fill screen (page 163)
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Has anyone else run into this error message? Class not decoded 'valsrevenge.HealthComponent'
I have seen this when trying to run the exa...
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Under “Add Pathfinding to your game” (under chapter 13 „Planning Routes and Creating Believable AI“) there is a paragraph about add/editi...
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I was just informed that on some newer versions of Xcode and iOS, the GameScene is not loading, and instead shows a gray scr...
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Tammy Coron
@Paradox927
Gaming, and writing games in particular, is about passion, vision, experience, and immersio...
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@Paradox927
Page 163 says:
Alternatively, you can use the class name instead, like this:
player = childNode(withName: “Player”) as? Pl...
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Title: Apple Game Frameworks and Technologies: Scrolling background (page 120-124)
I have the code implemented and double checked with t...
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I think the code proposed is missing an else; in case the user moves outside the pad (where the node does not start with “co...
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And I wrote a review of it.
Great job, @Paradox927!
It’s a huge topic, but you did great IMO.
I really enjoyed it. :+1:t2:
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Working through the steps (checking that the Info,plist matches exactly), run the demo game and what appears is grey but does not fill th...
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Just a heads up that in Xcode 12 the path for creating a Sprite Atlas is:
(In the chapter “Add the Images Resources for the Player”)....
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The code to add the monster entity to the scene’s entity array (so that the generator-spawned monsters get component updates) in chapter ...
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I the downloaded resources, I think it would be nice to prefix the directory names with th...
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This is super minor, but I would find it helpful if the folders in the zip file containing sample code had the chapter number at the fron...
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Title: Name of book: Apple Game Frameworks and Technologies: Show the Game Center Dashboard failing (page 383…)
At the risk of embarrass...
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How can I make sure the the xcproj example files are safe? And contain no harmful software when running in Xcode
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Title: Name of book: Apple Game Frameworks and Technologies (Chapter 5 “die” animation)
Not an errata that I can tell so far…
I’m at th...
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So Xcode 12 added native support for SVG files. From Apple’s Xcode 12 release notes:
Asset Catalogs
New Features
Added support for Sca...
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I am having a problem adding the Health Meter for the player in valsrevenge. I’m using Xcode 12. As instructed. I am using the Componen...
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Title: Apple Game Frameworks and Technologies: currentPlayer = nil (page 412)
Given my recent track record on my problem posts, I would ...
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On page 62, right after the code snippet for func drop(dropSpeed: TimeInterval, floorLevel: CGFloat), is this line:
Here, you’re settin...
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