Chapter 16

Game Kit Recipes

In this chapter, you are going to use a simple Hangman game and integrate it with Game Center. Game Center allows you to enhance your game by providing easy methods for implementing social features such as high scores, game achievements, and multiplayer gameplay. Adding these features can not only provide more value to your game but also extend the “replay factor” of your game.

You will start by adding high scores and achievements and ultimately finish by making your game multiplayer. You can find the start of this project at https://github.com/shawngrimes/HangmanMP.

Recipe 16–1: Starting with Game Center

Before you can start using Game Center, you will need to use iTunes Connect. If you have already submitted an ...

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