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Learn Sprite Kit for iOS Game Development
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Learn Sprite Kit for iOS Game Development

by Leland Long
June 2014
Beginner content levelBeginner
256 pages
5h 38m
English
Apress
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Chapter     1

Hello World

We Love Games

“Waka waka waka!” (Pac-Man)

My teenage years were spent playing arcade games and watching other kids play video games. Drop a quarter into the slot, and you were transported to a place that was awesome, feeling the adrenaline rush as you dodged bad guys and avoided death, fingers flying all over the controls. The best place to go was the nickel arcade, where you could pay a nominal admission fee and then each game cost a single nickel! A ten-dollar bill could last you for hours!

When the money ran out and we had to snap back into the real world, we made games. My computer had only 3KB of programmable memory, so they were very small games indeed. No wasting code-space with comments—oh no! Variable names ...

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