Game Development with Swift

Adding the restart game menu

The restart menu is even simpler to implement. Rather than create a new scene, we can extend our existing HUD class to display a restart button when the game ends. We will also include a smaller button to return the player to the main menu. This menu will appear on top of the action, as in this screenshot:

Extending the HUD

First, we need to create and draw our new button nodes in the HUD class. Follow these steps to add the nodes:

1. Open the HUD.swift file and add two new properties to the HUD class, as follows:

   let restartButton = SKSpriteNode()
   let menuButton = SKSpriteNode()

2. Add the following code at the bottom of the ...