Beginning Swift Games Development for iOS: Develop 2D and 3D games Using Apple's SceneKit and SpriteKit

© James Goodwill and Wesley Matlock 2017

James Goodwill and Wesley Matlock, Beginning Swift Games Development for iOS, 10.1007/978-1-4842-2310-9_2

2. SpriteKit Scenes and SKNode Positioning

James Goodwill¹  and Wesley Matlock²

(1)Highlands Ranch, Colorado, USA

(2)Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Chapter 1 talked about what SpriteKit was and how you can use it to create 2D games. It showed how to start working with the SKSpriteNode to create a background and player sprite and then showed how to add them to a game scene.

This chapter steps back a bit for a deeper look at SpriteKit scenes, including how scenes are built and why the order they are built in can change your game. We close the chapter with a discussion of SpriteKit coordinate systems and anchor ...