Apple Game Frameworks and Technologies

Use the Action Editor to Add Actions

In Chapter 2, ​Adding Animation and Movement with Actions​, you learned about one of the most powerful features in SpriteKit: actions. But you haven’t yet had a chance to play with them in the Scene Editor. Let’s change that by having you add a subtle blink to Val’s eye using the Action Editor rather than using the animation component you created in ​Animate the Monsters​.

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 folder included with the code resources for this chapter. Either option is fine; the only benefit to using the starter project is that ...