The game developer's toolkit
June 7, 2021
Power up your online gaming experience with GameKit and adopt features like multiplayer, leaderboards, and achievements in your game. We’ll take you through the latest improvements to Game Center, including player matching and multiplayer APIs, and explore how you can boost discovery of your game.
What’s new in Game Center: Widgets, friends, and multiplayer improvements
Watch nowBring Recurring Leaderboards to your game
Recurring leaderboards are a great way to encourage players to keep coming back to your game. Code along with us as we take you through how to set up a recurring leaderboard, both within App Store Connect and in your game itself.
Bring Recurring Leaderboards to your game
Watch nowDiscover rolling clips with ReplayKit
Never again miss anyone's great moment in your game or app. Learn about ReplayKit's latest update — clips screen recording — which provides your app with a rolling buffer of past video and audio samples. When memorable moments happen, discover how you can record and save it for people, and find out how you can surface those clips when they’re most relevant.
Discover rolling clips with ReplayKit
Watch nowTap into virtual and physical game controllers
Learn about the latest improvements to virtual and physical game controllers for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV. Meet the virtual on-screen controller, which turns touch input into game controller input, and find out how to add controller sharing features to your app. We’ll also show you how to support adaptive trigger technology found in DualSense controllers, provide best practices for controller support, and take you through some common pre-flight checks around accessible and customizable input before submitting to the App Store.
Tap into virtual and physical game controllers
Watch nowPractice audio haptic design
Discover how you can deliver rich app experiences that include animation, sound, and haptics on iPhone. Learn key concepts for designing multimodal experiences within the Core Haptics framework. We’ll take you through our sample HapticRicochet app — where haptic and sound feedback is designed in harmony with key interactive moments — and show you how to create magical and delightful experiences.
Practice audio haptic design
Watch nowDiscover geometry-aware audio with PHASE
Explore how geometry-aware audio can help you build complex, interactive, and immersive audio scenes for your apps and games. Meet PHASE, Apple’s spatial audio API, and learn how it keeps the sound aligned with your experience at all times — helping you create spatial soundscapes and scenes during the development process, rather than waiting until post production.
Discover geometry-aware audio with the Physical Audio Spatialization Engine (PHASE)
Watch nowOptimize high-end games for Apple GPUs
Optimize your high-end games for Apple GPUs: We’ll show you how you can use our rendering and debugging tools to eliminate performance issues and make your games great on Apple platforms.
