Apple Game Frameworks and Technologies

Build a Monster Generator

The monster generator is what you’ll use to periodically spawn new monsters of a certain type at specific locations within the dungeon.

In the Project Navigator, select the Components group, and inside that group, create a new file (⌘N) using the iOS Swift File template. Name the new file GeneratorComponent.swift and replace its contents with the following code:

import SpriteKit
import GameplayKit

class GeneratorComponent: GKComponent {

  override func didAddToEntity() {

  }

  override class var supportsSecureCoding: Bool {
    true
  }
}

Because you won’t be overriding any of the other standard methods in this component, you can omit them.

Also, because you’ll be doing a lot ...