November 2011
Beginner
238 pages
6h 19m
English
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Chapter 9
Turned-Based Gaming with Game Center
Apple announced iOS 5 at its own World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) in 2011. In addition to a number of smaller enhancements that this new SDK brought to Game Center, it included one very important new feature: turned-based gaming is the newest addition to the Game Center platform. With turn-based gaming, you can now provide your users with asynchronous gaming. Turned-based games are simply any game in which players take turns playing, such as in tic-tac-toe, chess, Battleship, and Monopoly.
Turned-based gaming on iOS has become very popular in the past few years, starting with Words with Friends. Words with Friends, shown in Figure 9–1, is an asynchronous word game similar to Scrabble. Each ...