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Learn real-world, workshop-tested insights about game design, including cognitive complexity, paper prototyping, and levels of fun. Implement sophisticated game features such as obstacles and weapons, power-ups and variable difficulty, physics, sound, special effects, and both single- and two-finger control.

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Ready to make that next cool game for iOS? You'll need to know how to use Apple's 2D game development engine, Sprite Kit. We'll show you how in Build iOS Games with Sprite Kit: Unleash Your Imagination in Two Dimensions, now in print and shipping from pragprog.com/book/pssprite.

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Build iOS Games with Sprite Kit: Unleash Your Imagination in Two Dimensions

Power up your inner game developer and start building incredible games with Sprite Kit. This book will teach you everything you need to know about Apple's 2D game engine. If you have some programming experience but you're new to game development, you'll hit the ground running, no complex tools required—just the Sprite Kit SDK.

You'll start out fast by building a single-finger infinite runner game, where the goal is to stay alive as long as possible and rack up points. You'll explore the Sprite Kit template, actions, and particle editor and watch your game take shape with an armed player ship, asteroids and enemy ships, explosions, power-ups, and variable difficulty. Then you'll stitch the game together with cutscenes, menus, and scoring.

Next, you'll build a classic pinball game with all the fun and physics of the real thing. You'll discover the powerful Sprite Kit physics engine and enhance your game with gravity, friction, ricochets, and spin physics, as well as sound effects, bonus scoring, and special effects. Plus, this game features two-finger control.

Dust off those game ideas you've been tucking away and let your imagination bring them to life. This book will show you how.

Now in print and shipping from pragprog.com/book/pssprite.

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