Swift game programming for absolute beginners. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Arjan Egges.
• Authors: Egges, Arjan
• Contents: At a Glance; Contents; About the Author; About the Technical Reviewer; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: Getting Started; Chapter 1: The Swift Language; Computers and Programs; Processors and Memory ; Programs ; Programming Languages ; Programming Games; Developing Games; Small Scale: Edit-Compile-Run; Large Scale: Design-Specify-Implement; Building Your First Swift Program; Building Your First Swift Game; A Few Observations; What You Have Learned; Chapter 2: Game Programming Basics; Building Blocks of a Game; The Game World; The Game Loop; The Game Loop in Swift. The Structure of a Program Types of Applications; Functions ; Syntax Diagrams; Calling a Function ; Program Layout; Comments ; Instructions vs. Lines ; Whitespace and Indentation ; What You Have Learned; Chapter 3: Creating a Game World; Basic Types and Variables; Types ; Declaration and Assignment of Variables; Instructions and Expressions ; Operators and More Complex Expressions; Arithmetic Operators ; Priority of Operators ; Other Numeric Types ; The DiscoWorld Game ; Scope of Variables ; What You Have Learned; Chapter 4: Game Assets; Locating Sprites. Loading and Drawing Sprites Resolutions and Aspect Ratios; Moving Sprites; Loading and Drawing Multiple Sprites; Configuring the Device Orientation; Music and Sounds ; What You Have Learned; Part II: Painter; Chapter 5: Reacting to Player Input; Dealing With Touch Input; Using the Touch Location to Change the Game World; Conditional Execution Based on Touch; Testing for Alternatives; Comparison Operators; Logic Operators; The Boolean Type; Changing the Color of the Cannon; A Few Final Remarks; What You Have Learned; Chapter 6: A Flying Ball; Methods. Parameter Names and Labels Default Parameter Values; Reorganizing Instructions into Methods; Moving Between Local and World Coordinates; Adding a Ball to the Game World; Shooting the Ball; Updating the Ball Position; Fixed Timestep vs. Variable Timestep; Updating the Ball Color; What You Have Learned; Chapter 7: Game Object Types; Creating Multiple Objects of the Same Type; Classes as Types; Input Handling in a Separate Class; Initializing Objects; The Self Keyword; Accessing Other Objects Using Static Variables; The Double Role of Classes. Writing a Class with Multiple Instances Dealing with Randomness in Games; Calculating a Random Velocity and Color; Updating the Paint Can; What You Have Learned; Chapter 8: Colors and Collisions; A Different Way to Represent Colors; Controlled Data Access for Objects; Adding a Computed Property to a Class; Handling Collisions Between the Ball and the Cans; Values and References; Structs; What You Have Learned; Chapter 9: Limited Lives; Maintaining the Number of Lives; Indicating the Number of Lives to the Player; Executing Instructions Multiple Times.
• Publisher Details: Berkeley, CA : Apress
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 005.756; Computer science; Programming languages (Electronic computers); Application software -- Development; Computer games -- Programming; COMPUTERS -- Programming Languages -- General; Application software -- Development; Computer games -- Programming; Programming languages (Electronic computers); Programming & scripting languages: general; Computers -- Programming -- Games; Games development & programming; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781484206508; 1484206509; 1484206517; 9781484206515
• Related ISBNs: 9781484206515
• Notes: Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 5, 2015).
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