A deeper look into making iOS games with a simple shoot-em-up!

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In our last meetup, (https://www.meetup.com/Tampa-iOS-Meetup/events/239121074/) we took our first look at SpriteKit (https://www.raywenderlich.com/category/apple-game-frameworks) — Apple’s framework for making games — and a Swift implementation of the “Flappy Bird” game. Due to the demand as well as the fact that it can be different and confusing at first, we’re going to take another look at game programming at the next Tampa iOS Meetup.

This time, you’ll make a shoot-em-up style game and learn how to:

• Animate game characters and move them across the screen independently

• Learn how to know when onscreen objects have collided with each other

• Respond to the user tapping the screen and know where on the screen they tapped

• Play short sound effects and a background soundtrack

If you’ve got a MacBook, you’ll want to bring it, because we’re going to code this game during the session! You’ll download a starter project, and then write the actual code that powers the game. By the end of the session, you’ll be able to write your own shoot-em-up style games and know enough to start more game coding exploration on your own.

(Yes, you can still come if you don’t bring a Mac laptop.)

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Once again, the fine people at Wolters Kluwer (and their doubly-fine representative, John Wang) are providing us with the space, as well as food and drink. Let’s give them a golf clap for making this meetup possible!