Project 36: Crashy Plane

Written by Paul Hudson    @twostraws

Description: Ever wanted to make a Flappy Bird clone? Now you can do it in under an hour thanks to SpriteKit.

• Setting up

• Creating a player: resizeFill vs aspectFill

• Sky, background and ground: parallax scrolling with SpriteKit

• Creating collisions

• Pixel-perfect physics in SpriteKit, plus explosions and more

• Background music with SKAudioNode, an intro, plus game over

• Optimizing SpriteKit physics

• Wrap up

Need help?

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If you're still having problems, you can post to the Hacking with Swift subreddit where you can expect an answer fairly quickly, or you can find me on Twitter where I'll do my best to help.

Project files

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