Swift Game Programming for Absolute Beginners

Arjan Egges is an associate professor in Computer Science at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. He is responsible there for research in the area of computer animation, and he heads the university s motion capture lab in the animation department. Arjan has written over 30 research papers on animation. He is the founder of the highly successful, annual ACM SIGGRAPH conference on Motion in Games, of which the proceedings have been published by Springer-Verlag. Arjan is responsible for having designed Utrecht University s computer animation course offerings in the Game and Media Technology master s program, and he is currently the leader of that master s program. In 2011 he designed the introductory programming course for the university s bachelor s degree offering in Game Technology. He is coauthor of the book Learn C# by Programming Games, published in 2013 by Springer.

• Part I: Getting Started 1. The Swift Language 2. Game Programming Basics 3. Creating a Game World 4. Game Assets Part II: Painter 5. Knowing What the Player is Doing 6. Reacting to Player Input 7. Basic Game Objects 8. Game Object Types 9. Colors and Collisions 10. Limited Lives 11. Organizing Game Objects 12. Finishing the Painter Game Part III: Galactic Waste 13. Adapting to Different Devices 14. Game Object Hierarchies 15. Game Physics 16. Game Object Interaction 17. Finishing the Galactic Waste Game Part IV: Penguin Pairs 18. Sprite Sheets 19. Storing and Recalling Game Data 20. Pairing the Penguins 21. Finishing the Penguin Pairs Game 22. The Main Game Structure 23. Animation Part V: Tick Tick 24. Platform Game Physics 25. Intelligent Enemies 26. Adding Player Interaction 27. Finishing the Tick Tick Game