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_9

9. SpriteKit Best Practices

James Goodwill¹  and Wesley Matlock²

(1)Highlands Ranch, Colorado, USA

(2)Kansas City, Missouri, USA

In this chapter, you’ll learn some SpriteKit best practices; specifically, you’ll see how you can create your own subclasses of SKSpriteNode so that you can better reuse your nodes. You’ll then move on to changing your game to load all the sprites into a single texture atlas that you can reference when creating all future sprites. After that, you’ll move on to externalizing some of your game data so that designers and testers can change the game play. Finally, you’ll close out ...