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Paul, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us. You are a gifted teacher.

A very belated thank you. Another great session, building a nice action game. Love your humor, enthusiasm and generosity. Learned loads.

This entire thing is brilliant! I love all these classes!

Thank you for these streams Paul!! I haven't watched one live yet (partly due to the time difference to Oz) but love watching them. Your comment about taking 6-8 hours to prep really helped me as well since it makes it seem more manageable compared to thinking you do this all completely on the fly. :-P After watching this I was dreaming about coding* - enjoying being on the start of this journey. :-) Oh, and I'd love to see some AR stuff as well - can't wait! * could be partly due to being sick, but anywho...

Been coding Java, etc... since Java 1.2 days. Wrote my first iOS app w/ Obj-C years ago and am ramping into Swift dev now. Loved this video, great intro to SpriteKit. Looking forward to exploring your posts further and hopefully catching you live one of these Sunday's. Thanks!

Great project Paul, thank you.

Thank you so much Paul for such marvlous tutorial and explanation.

More like these please. Great stuff! 🙌

Brilliant tutorial. Thanks Paul Hudson.

2 Years later but I loved the video, thanks for the good content

Thank you for your time. Love the video!

awesome glad I found this channel!

Awesome!! Thanks, Paul!

Love it! Thank you so much for these!

Thanks Paul!

Very informative and helpful!

Thank you for this greatest stream! I'm so happy that the things aren't so alien to me anymore after the first SpriteKit project in Hacking with Swift. Things really do come together quite nicely! I would really love to come and meet you (and Luna, of course... well, mostly Luna, right?!) but when I see that the conference price would be the last of my troubles I get a wave of sadness washing over me... flight, hotel and trains fares are just... OMG! :-(

thank you for posting these videos. i started watching in order to learn how to make desktop games and apps for the mac itself. no one seems to cover the macos development, but i suppose the same principles should apply. one thing i would love to see covered is what all those files in the template do (AppDelegate, Info.plist, storyboards, etc.) or a pointer to a resource that covers them. thanks.

Thanks for sharing this!

Thank you for your time, great video, God bless you

Thank you for this stream! I just made my first game in swift!

that's quite a master class!

Very nice and simple, good explanation, nice evening for me :)

thanks, that was very helpful

Literally the first video ever that I pressed the like button on because I was reminded of it by the creator. Also leaving a comment for the algorithm. Love your stuff!

Great example! Could you show how to control something like this with a Bluetooth Xbox/ps4 controller? I heard they are now usable as an extended game pad but I can’t find any examples.

Hey Paul amazing tutorial ! please how can we do to restart the game ?

Awesome stuff! I have question here: I have a 6th gen. 9'7'' Ipad. My Spaceship always leaves the scene up and down. I have debugged the properties and maxY, and minY are actually way off the screen. So those doesn't seem to limit the movement of the ship enough. minY is -667.0 and maxY is 667.0. So I basically had to adjust those values by 400 or -400 at the check. Why is the minY and maxY not changing automatically set with device? Awesome material though, thank you for sharing your knowledge!

how could I use motion manager to make the ship move anywhere on the screen?

Great understandable video.... as usual. I was trying to scale the explosions to the size of the enemy. So the biggest ships have a 1.5 scale and the small ships have a 2/3 scale explosion, with the following. if let explosion = SKEmitterNode(fileNamed: "Explosion") { explosion.particleScale = CGFloat(400.0) / enemy.speed explosion.position = enemy.position addChild(explosion) } enemy.removeFromParent() But I get a big yellow screen with outlined nodes. What did I do wrong? Workaround: Have 3 different "Explosion.sks" file.

Even two years later there is till value here. want to do more with SpriteKit. Perhaps as way to enhance the dynamic experience of my apps. I'm thinking of crafting a rainfall of flowers.

By any chance could you make a SpriteKit series

Hi Paul. At 9 minutes in (roughly), after you “clean” the project, why not save it, and make it the new iOS “SpriteKit Game” template; this way you don’t have to go through the whole rigamarole every time?

Great video, but when I tried the build at 1:03:20 (after addchild(enemy and node)) i get fatal errer: Index out of range highlighting the Else portion of if current.wave.enemies.isempty. (when it does addChild(node) at the end). Thoughts?

9:53 @seanallen 's picture in your Downloads?

Value of type 'Bundle' has no member 'decode' This popped up after 35:36

What's the name of the xcode software used to create this app. I'm using xcode 13 and the layout is very different so it's hard to navigate when this xcode on the video is clearly different.

HI, This has come in handy even now but for some reason I cant access the decode function after adding it to Bundle, im following everything you did but I get an error "Value of type "Bundle" has no member "Decode". any help will be welcome, thanks

The only thing I don't like about Paul's videos is that he doesn't preview enough of the code he's building. It get's a little overwhelming seeing code and code all the time.

1:02:23 it says build succeeded for me, but also says "thread 1 fatal error failed to locate wave.json in bundle " what do I gotta change for app to run??

Am I commenting just bc you said so? maybe... but hope it still counts to UKposts!

i'm 4 years late. can i still learn the basics of SpriteKit here? or is there any major or significant changes that makes me perhaps couldn't follow along?

After defining the physics body, I get the error "PhysicsBody: Could not create physics body." Anyone know a fix?