SpriteKit is Apple's own game framework that came out with iOS7. It arguably does a number of things better than the rest of the 2D game frameworks out there and here they are.

1. SpriteKit 101
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Marin Todorov
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2. Marin Todorov
“Touch Code Magazine”
www.touch-code-magazine.com
“Ray Wenderlich iOS Team”
www.raywenderlich.com (biggest iPhone blog out there)
Active on GitHub, Stackoverflow, what have you...
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3. Marin Todorov
“iOS Games by Tutorials”
“iOS7 by Tutorials”
“Adobe AIR Cookbook”
and more...
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4. Today you will:
★ Learn about SpriteKit
★ See SpriteKit Code
★ Get inspired to create iOS games
★ and ...
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5. Swag
SWAG!
Arghhh!
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6. Swag
1 copy “iOS Games by Tutorials”
1 copy of “Texture packer”
1 copy of Particle Designer 2.0
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7. This Session
1. Introduction
2. About SpriteKit
3. How is SpriteKit better?
4. Code demo
5. Swag!
6. Q & A
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8. What a game needs?
http://appstore.com/rage
http://appstore.com/doodlejump
http://appstore.com/asphaltaudirs3
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9. SpriteKit
-
2D game framework
Objective-C only!
Apple design to the max
integrated in XCode
very simple to prototype games
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10. Cocos2D
- Tens of thousands of games built with Cocos2d
- Bought by Zynga(#1 game company of Facebook)
- Spawned multi-platform version Cocos2DX
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11. Cocos2D
SpriteKit APIs look VERY
similar to Cocos2D...
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12. Cocos2D
=
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13. This Session
1. Introduction
2. About SpriteKit
3. How is SpriteKit better?
4. Code demo
5. Swag!
6. Q & A
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14. Advantages
1) Automatic Spritesheets
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15. Advantages
2) Built-in particle editor
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16. Advantages
3) Built-in physics
sync
sync
Images
Physics
SpriteKit
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17. Advantages
4) UIKit integrated
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18. Advantages
5) Fonts are supported
You
Lose
Loser!
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19. Advantages
6) Video
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20. Advantages
7) Effects
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21. Advantages
8) Objective-C rulez
C / C++
ActionScript
JavaScript
VisualBasic
Image: Glen Bowman
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22. This Session
1. Introduction
2. About SpriteKit
3. How is SpriteKit better?
4. Code demo
5. Swag!
6. Q & A
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23. Bird Evil
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24. This Session
1. Introduction
2. About SpriteKit
3. How is SpriteKit better?
4. Code demo
5. Swag!
6. Q & A
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25. Swag
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26. Swag
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27. This Session
1. Introduction
2. About SpriteKit
3. How is SpriteKit better?
4. Code demo
5. Swag!
6. Q & A
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28. SpriteKit rocks!
Thank you!
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