Help with SpritKit's Tile Set in SwiftUI. Looking for suggestions

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jhfernan OP

Created Jan ’22

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I wanted to build a game for my class like "UniWar: Multiplayer Strategy." It is a hexagonal tile 2d strategy game.

Everywhere I search online, everything points to using SpriteKit and using the tile sets to accomplish what I want. The problem I am running into is that there is very little if not poor examples online of using Tile Sets and SpriteKit (or maybe they are super good but my novice skills is getting in the way). Every tutorial I have found is either 6 years old and is unrecognizable or Apple Documentation that tends to explain what it is but not how to use it.

I should mention a couple things, one, yes, I am a novice swift programmer and, two, I learn best by doing not by being told (so for example, someone showing me how to use it helps a lot more than "use this code").

I really want to learn so does anyone have some suggestions for learning Tile Sets and SpriteKit in general?

P.S. I am also not above a course that costs something (I have already searched Udemy for a course on this but couldn't find one)

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szymczyk OP

Jan ’22

The most up to date book on SpriteKit is the book Apple Game Frameworks and Technologies. It has a chapter on working with tile maps.

pragprog.com/titles/tcswift/apple-game-frameworks-and-technologies/

A free book on SpriteKit is Ray Wenderlich's book 2D Apple Games by Tutorials. It has two chapters on tile maps. The book is older. The SpriteKit material is still relevant. The book uses an older version of Xcode so you can't blindly follow their instructions on recent Xcode versions.

github.com/raywenderlich/deprecated-books

Both of these books assume you have some experience in Swift. If you need to learn about Swift and iOS development, Hacking with Swift has a free 100 day course on SwiftUI. One of the projects you build in the course is a SpriteKit game, but I don't think it uses tile maps.

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