The one year game develpoment duel
  • May

    26

    2018
    Shaders and Starburst Make a Clever Health Bar 0 comments code spritekit shader

    Up until now I’ve had placeholder health bars that do their job as intended, but require a ton of manual work and take up a lot of memory. I’ve always had the goal of making the health bars work programmatically, and I finally got around to doing it. Well, version 1 at least. Have a look at how I’ve used SKShader, SKCropNode, SKShapeNode and CGPath all rendered to one final texture to make my health system work.

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  • May

    23

    2018
    What Have I Been Up To? 3 comments thoughts announcements

    Most people who come to this site would be under the impression that it is abandoned. That’s partially true. But just because there is little activity here, that doesn’t mean I’ve been doing nothing. The truth is that a lot has been accomplished, followed by burnout, followed by a crossroads that I’m now at.

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  • Jul

    12

    2016
    Isometric Projectile Trajectory in Swift and SpriteKit 2 comments code spritekit

    How do you launch a catapult, grenade, arrow, or any other projectile in an isometric world? I had to joy of figuring that out over these past two days, and I thought I would share. Before jumping in, let me point out that the code below is for my specific use case, and is not a full featured framework. So, you’ll still have to understand the concepts, but if you’re Googling for help this will hopefully get you on the right track.

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Status Update#28

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Wow, can you believe that my last post was July12th, 2016? It’s been almost two years. Well, there are a few reasons for that which I’ve covered in a separate post. As for the game, there have been plenty of changes. Since the last update, I can’t think of a single system that hasn’t been touched. The update video will do a good job highlighting the most significant changes.

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