Apple Game Frameworks and Technologies

Chapter 14Using the Action Editor and Enhancing Gameplay

You’re making great progress with Val’s Revenge. You started by building a small, simple scene using the Scene Editor. You then added reference nodes and tile maps, making it easier to share content between scenes, and making it possible to build larger scenes while also keeping resources at a minimum.

You also improved your game development skills (and your game) by learning about GameplayKit and adding components, entities, states, and state machines to Val’s Revenge. You even gave life to your entities by adding little “brains” to them using agents, goals, and behaviors.

In this chapter, you’ll strengthen your game development skills as you begin to add small enhancements to Val’s ...