Creating a main menu
When playing mobile games, you will usually find an initial menu screen when you run it. These screens are usually shown to provide players with a way to modify some configurations, such as turning on or turning off of the game sound, the selection of a game's difficulty, or just a way to hide a big load of components.
We are going to create a menu that will be shown when the game is run, where we will show a background and a button to start playing the game.
For this purpose, we will need to create a new scene file to manage this new screen behavior. To do so, perform the following steps:
- In Xcode, select the File menu at the top of the screen.
- Select New | File, and you will see the Files dialog box.
- Select the Swift File option ...
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