You can tell that this is a great tutorial because I was able to follow along perfectly 6 years after it was first posted. Cheers!

Thanks for the tutorial Jared. I like how you explain the why and how of objects that you're creating. I found it very helpful.

Great tutorial, Jared: fast, complete (start-to-finish), with good commentary along the way. I'm sure that SpriteKit has a ton of detail, and you've helped us newbies with a simple introduction. Thanks.

This is the type of tutorial that I love to watch! Great work Jared :)

7 years old and still a great tutorial. Everything was crystal clear. Thank-you. Instead of UIKit, I used the SwiftUI project template with SpriteView. Works well with the tutorial.

Nice Jared! Love the new series you're going! They're so useful. :D

Nice down and dirty tutorial. Quick clear and to the point. I'll be watching the rest, thanks!

This is the best Xcode tutorial I've ever seen

Love the Vids Jared!!! Helps out a lot! :D

Nice way to start spritekit, doesn't overwhelm you with other things I would I want to do in the future

Thank You, this was a pretty simple video to follow. A great way to start and practice.

Let me know what you guys would like to see in the future with this Pong series! Project files are on GitHub (link in description). :)

Thanks Jared, love the videos!

LOVE LOVE LOVE this kind of series!

Really Really Amazing Tutorial... Keep Your videos coming... Loved it

I love these vids! Thanks for making them :)

It's been a long time since I watched your videos and I can see that you have become a lot better than just a year ago!

Would love to see another part of this! To show win/lose and the score and stuff :)

excellent tutorial... There are several changes needed if you are using Swift 4 and Xcode 9, the least intuitive one was the fact I needed to define the border as: border.categoryBitMask = 1 Right now at the end of part 1, my ball tends to get stuck in an endless loop when it gets trapped behind a paddle (either at the very top or very bottom) -- I'll continue with part 2 before I tackle that... This is my first experience with SpriteKit, I was writing a conventional UIKit-based app when it occurred to me that a behavior I desired for a screen object was something that SpriteKit would give me for less effort than programing it from scratch... This tutorial is an excellent hands-on introduction. Thank you!

Needed this exactly today.. Thanks a ton.. :)

Very good video, thanks Jared

Great tutorial :D

You awesome man!)) Your videos are great! will recommend your channel to friends! thanks a lot!

Great video as usual.

Hey Jared, absolutley love the channel, followed pretty much all of your tutorials to the letter. I would say though, the background for swift is a bit hard to read, maybe go to a white background black font? either way still loving the channel, keep it up man!!

then lets go ahead ;) thanks for the video mate!!

Thank you so much. I love all your tutorial videos. They are just really helpful!! Can you also teach how to write enemy's AI in for example FPS games with Swift3?

thank you very much also, you are very helpfull , all my knowledge is from you. thank you and keep uploding!!

you´re awesome bro

Great tutorial and intro to SpriteKit. Still works - kinda - in 2022 with Xcode 13.3. Had to make a few mods - the "self.frame" used to create the border in GameScene.swift required an inset because the ball would move off the screen before bouncing back in.

Nice tutorial:) One question is that why did you have to create a texture for the ball and not change the color of the ball from red to white in the Scene editor? It would look the same right?

Great tutoria! Just one question, the ball moves but when it hit my bar or the enemy the ball sticks to the bars. What is the problem? Using Xcode 9

hey i have a question so when i got assistant editor it says no assistant editor

i just love it

Awesome !

ahah thanks. I got stuck with my ball not moving and then I realized that I had set ball = self.childNode(...) x3 3 times. I changed it to ball, enemy, main = and the ball started bouncing around thanks!

Hi Jared, I have followed you exactly on the part #1 but my pong ball doesn’t bounce back. As i launch simulator the ball start going on top right and it just goes in the corner and just stuck there it doesn’t bounce back, help me.

by the way love your videos Jared :)

Hello Jared, I made the mistake of trying to run the simulator through my laptop and not my iPhone and the image of the paddles and ball, with no movement, was all I saw. When I connected my phone it's giving me a sort of error for the "main" paddle. Should I just start over with my iPhone 6s connected from the onset of the project to see how it goes? I will do that anyway. In the mean time, this is part 1. Will there be a part 2, 3, etc.? I truly enjoy the clarity of your tutorials. Thank you for posting them. Hope all is well, Sharky...

Jared, please update that video you made about creating a custom camera view, but with swift 3

Hello first time xcode user.Im having trouble finding the options for color sprite (its not in the bottom right corner) How do I find/enable it?

Im pretty new to this, and somehoe when i just want to start a projekt and make a simple label in the middle (SKLabelNode) i dont know what files to delete from the beginning thing in the projekt and my label doesnt load

can u start a tutorial for a platform kind of game?

Hi! First of all I just wanted to say I already love your tutorial video and the code is looking fine. However I do need help with a few things: 1. The ball and enemy are moving slow 2. The enemy is holding the ball instead of hitting it back. Are these issues due to any updates?

how do i run the game inside of a black box like you did in the video? i can only find iPhone simulators.

Hi Jared, just a general question here - how were you able to connect/test out this application on your personal iPhone rather than on the in-built Xcode simulator? Thanks

hey, I'm having this problem where the assistant editor is set to manual and there is no automatic option, so i can't right click and drag to link sprite nodes and such, i also can't type any code with both windows open, do you know how to fix this?

Thanks for the tutorial but I cant find color sprite. I'm using Xcode 12

Reallyyy easy to follow

awesome video

Hey Jared I would like to know how to make it two player thanks

Trying to run it but I get an error saying that it found nil while unwrapping the enemy variable. How would I fix this?

Everytime I open gamescene.sks it crashes. I tried making another project and the same thing happens. Any ideas?

Jared. I have a 2012 Mac Mini. The iOS simulator is so slow it's pretty much unusable. Im downloading iOS 8 to see if that solves the problem. Any tips to make it run 60fps like yours?

nice video, thank you!

Do you have a explanation why my simulator is just showing a white screen when opening the pong app?

How do you get the color sprite at the beginning

my ball is moving super fast? how do i fix it ive followed the tutorial exactly?

Hi jared You make really good video but they're question in your comment that you need to answer. I have a problem to with that tutorial, When I start the game I only see my ball going around I don't see anything else. I revise your video twice and theirs nothing wrong also my ball is slowing down can you help me please?

Hey, in the end of the video you seemed to be running a simulation on your phone. How did you do that? I tried to google it but no good answers.

Owh yeah!

nice videos. And can you make drawing app tutorial please

thank you so much :)

Good video!

Maybe its because of an xcode or swift update or something but after going over everything several times i can't get the ball to bounce unless I check affected by gravity. also the ball seems to be slow yet I've set damping to 0 & 0 and restitution is set to 1 on the ball and the border in code just like yours.

What does the "Expected declaration" error mean on line 26: "ball.physicsBody?.applyImpulse(CGVector(dx: 20, dy: 20))"

Could replicate the pong app, but now I'm trying to created another one and the scene is extremely slow, what could I have missed?

i have a problem when run the simulator. when ran the simulator, the ball didnt impulse. do you have the solution for this problem ?

I copied everything exactly but ended up with an error in my game view controller, I didnt add anything to it so I was quite confused. Anybody else have this issue?

how do you lean all the codes that needs to be typed like "vars ball ="?

if this doesnt work for you and it says build failed (around 13:14) then go to where the error is and delete " sceneNode.entities = scene.entities sceneNode.graphs = scene.graphs" it worked for me

Hey man I can’t get passed the code part I do everything correct and I’m getting the red alert

How do you have color schemes on Xcode 8.0? I thought plugins weren't available in the latest version.

I can do the code but the game doesn't show up beside the assistant editor, so I can't edit the ball so it goes faster, please someone help

whats the difference between swift 2 and swift3?

any alternative for pixelmator

Jared when i type var Ball = SKSpriteNode() it doesn't work ? can you help me pls bro

i have question, the new app is success installed on my iphone, but few days after that, it ALWAYS refuse to launch, when i click it, short white blank space then back to screen. is it have something to do with iOS developer account or distribution, can anyone explain. thanks

Thank you Jared for this interesting video!) And to another people, if your ball didn't move to fix it you need in file GameViewController.swift change that line "if let scene = GameScene(fileNamed: "GameScene")" SKScene() to YourNameScene (example -- GameScene()!) And it's work!

Hi I am very curious is making AI hard because I don't know how to do it as I was going to make a PAC man still of game. That could be a good tut trial as will. Anyway keep up the good work. From the best Australian subscriber

do you recommend to use the gamescene.sks instead write position and everything?

Tutorial is really straightforward and easy to understand, but I'm having problems with the frame boundaries and making the ball bounce. Is it possible that after three years anything has changed that would make this no longer work?

How change speed of your ball ?

Followed this on Xcode 10.1 letter per letter and still get 18 errors. When I run “Editor” “Fix all issues” it’ll go down to 15. Are these errors coming up because of a difference in Xcode versions ?

Hello, Do u use foundation? Looks like xD. Nothing wrong about it just wondering :)

hi my ball doesnt bounce off the walls whats the problem?

As someone who is just trying Xcode for the first time with this video, think you are a little bit too quick and had to jump around to make sure I followed, not a criticism just feedback :).​ Was very informative and got it to work. Thank you :D

For someone starting out brand new and really want to learn code. Where can I start with Swift? In the beginning of the video you deleted most of the code and kept a few lines, for me that’s confusing not knowing what you deleted and what you kept. And also the code you left . What does it do? Why is that important.

How to make game scene.swift background dark?

How do put an app icon?

My ball aka square isn't bouncing everywhere it just bounces up and down. Please help. Thx

For now, how can i make the second paddle move independently from the main one? I tried to copy for-loop for the enemy paddle but they both just move simultaneously now.

excuse me, can you help me, i'm having a problem about error domain 9806 and 9807 requires a certificate of trust

I did exactly what you did, but my ball is moving at a snails pace. Also Mass and Initial DX/DY speed all default to NaN for every object. Additionally, the enemy paddle does not move.

Can't figure this out. fatal error: unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value (lldb)

which image editor you suggest for making simple character

I really need help! The impulse does not work and the ball's physics body is set as dynamic. I set a breakpoint in the didMove(to:) function and it wasn't even called! In fact, nothing in my GameScene is ever called in runtime. Anyone's any idea?

What photo editor did you use?

fatal error: unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value (lldb) ... that say the debug... what now?

Xcode crashes right after I try to go onto GameScene.sks. At 1:44. I think I'll use another tutorial. :(