Learn Sprite Kit for iOS Game Development

Chapter     9

Add More Scenes and Levels

Multiple Player Lives

Before you begin adding more levels to the game, you have some additional details to implement. For instance, you’ll want the player to be able to “die” more than once in the game without the game ending. You will have the game start with several player lives, so that when a nasty vermin bites the player, it can reappear a few seconds later, ready to tackle them again. After all, accidents happen and vermin are vicious and sewers are stinky, but your hero is resilient and will survive! Hopefully.

First you need to add a constant that will determine the number of lives with which the player starts each game. Add this line at the top of the SKBGameScene.h file:

#import "SKBRatz.h"