Apple Game Frameworks and Technologies

Write Code to Interface with the Scene

In ​Configure the View and Load the Scene​, you learned how to load a scene file through code. If you recall, loading a scene file takes place in the viewDidLoad() method of the GameViewController.swift file and looks like this:

if let scene = GKScene(fileNamed: "GameScene")

But loading the scene is only half of the story—you still need to write the code that interfaces with the objects within the scene, for example, the player node. In this section, you’ll concentrate on making that connection.

To begin, open the valsrevenge project in Xcode.

Using the Starter Project

You may continue using your project from the previous chapter, or you can use the starter project located in the projects/begin ...