Natural endless scrolling with easing Welcome to my scrolling tutorial: Part 1: Endless scrolling with background tiles Part 2: Natural endless scrolling with easing In part one I showed how to implement endless scrolling. This is working fine, but there is still room for improvements. The scrolling starts immediately with full speed and also stops […]
Welcome to Part 8 of my blog series about game development: HUD with SpriteKit Today I’ll add a HUD (head up display) to the SpriteKit Scene. The HUD shows the remaining lives, current, level, score and has the option to pause the game: Create the HUD: 1. Create a new SpritKit project in Xcode: […]
Welcome to Part 7 of my blog series about game development: Scrolling with parallax effects Today I’ll extend the parallax effect from part 5 of my posts with vertical scrolling. This should increase the illusion of depth. To control the movement I’ll use the motion sensors as described in part 6. Steps to achieve this […]
Welcome to Part 6 of my blog series about game development: Device Motion Sensors Today I’ll include motion detection to control the movement of my game. iOS offers a powerful API to handle motion detection with the CMMotionManager class. Let’s start with a small standalone project to show how to use the motion detection:
Welcome to Part 5 of my blog series about game development: Endless Scrolling Today I’ll create a component which implements the endless scrolling and adds some parallax effects. I’ll use SpriteKit for that. A nice tutorial about SpriteKit can be found here and here and here. If you haven’t completed part 3 or 4, you can download the project from […]
Welcome to Part 4 of my blog series about game development: Endless Scrolling Today I’m showing how to implement an endless scrolling which is typical for Jump & Run games. First of all you need a background with 3 sections like the one shown below: Section 1 and 3 must be identical […]
Creating a start screen with parallax animations using iOS motion effects: One highly noticed innovation in iOS 7 was the parallax effect on the home screen. When you tilt your device this gives you the impression of depth. Luckily it is incredible easy to implement this behaviour with the iOS 7 motion effects. First you […]