How to Create iOS 2D Games with SpriteKit and Swift (Udemy.com)

What an excellent course. All the basics not only covered but properly explained. It helps to create a game from scratch through to a complete playable project and to understand the decisions made along the way. I have done other courses that cover the basics in isolation or where the explanations were glossed over. This course has made everything more understandable and clear.

I may be skipping ahead, but where are they course materials? Ok, my bad. I see the folder now next to the Section. Might think of putting it at the bottom as a tab to the right of "Announcements". I'm enjoying this a lot - I've taken many tutorials over the past 2 years and weird this is the first time I've come across GKRandomSource. Previous tutorials were using arc4random and other such things. Two more things I enjoyed since finishing. One was seeing how the Singleton was implemented in Swift. I've done it many times in .NET c# so this was very interesting. Secondly I did not know you could append a "let scene = self.scene" with a comma on an existing "if" statement. That was pretty cool because sometimes the paradox error of having to unwrap something that then says you can't force unwrap is really annoying. Finally, I want to say I thought you did a great job on the tutorial and glad you didn't edit out a few of the mistakes. Lastly, I hope that Apple continues to support SpriteKit for many more years. I've studied Unity and frankly it's not as much fun as coding games in Swift on SpriteKit.

The course was a little too advanced for me. I know the basics but there are assumptions here that were a little too far ahead. I followed and programmed along with the instructor and happily completed the course, but some of the concepts could have received a more thorough, organised description. Also, recent bugs within Xcode need to be addressed. Other students have mentioned the crashes when assigning SpriteTextures, but these haven't been acknowledged or worked around in the notes. I found online that this bug can be countered by programming the nodes without assigning them within the Xcode viewer, but otherwise I would have been lost and frustrated. Good but not thorough enough for a higher star rating.

The author clearly knows a lot, but his speed is a little fast. You can't really type along. You will have to watch, then go do it yourself. This could be helped by just pausing 3-5 seconds between switching files, give the student a chance to pause and validate their code looks the same. The resource for the code doesn't match the course. There are only 3 lectures in one section, but the code has 5 directories. Hard to know which is the one to open at the start. There is one section where instructor says to go get a sample app that doesn't exist (it was simple, but still). Would have been better to have just the assets folder, then a start and end for the entire section. Let people follow along the whole section, or skip ahead. People don't want to load a new solution for each lecture in a section. Now one thing that really bothered me was a refactoring that took place off camera. Instructor refactored the code into three files from one. If you have been typing everything in , and adding your own comments so you can come back and use this code later that just lost everything you have been doing. The end app is pretty nice, and is pretty real world. I could see someone implementing a simple game using all the principals in this course. I enjoyed it.

I thought this was a great course. I did not quite get everything, I understand bits of pieces here and there. I create a lot of typos. It may be a matter of going over it again and again and again till it sinks in my brain. At this point it has not sunk into my brain. Could I do this on my own without the tutorials, probably not. I think I need to continue to take beginning courses until I get it. It is starting to click.

This was an amazing Course. I took it as a somewhat Beginner but was able to follow it. The Instructor was very informative and explained everything in good detail. I tried to apply some of the things learned in a Jump and Run game, but quickly realized I am just not skilled enough yet to translate lessons learned in this Course into another game that is different from the one made in the Course. I would recommend this Course for sure, but I do hope there will be more coming, that Explore other games mechanics, for example how to make a Jump and Run Side Scroller, or a Top Down RPG style game that can then be expanded by the student in his own way with his/her own ideas.

The tutor doesn't mess around with explaining lots of detail. This can be a blessing if you can follow the pace but if you are a total beginner to Xcode and Swift you may find it tricky. That said the course is straight to the point and does in 4 hours what some would do in 8. The course covers mostly sprites and their physics and is a great intro to game development if you are starting out. The final product itself , I think has some bugs, but part of this course is that it gave me enough to figure them out and apply fixes, I also got enough from this course to add my own features and some changes to how the game plays out. I feel you only need familiarity with Swift and Xcode as the pace does not give you time to get used to it, but the SDK itself is hardly touched upon as its nearly all done in code which is a great way to get started. I recommend this course for anyone with little to some experience that wants to see a project to completion who is looking to build their own games.

Overall, I'm quite happy to finish this course. Even though I had a bit higher expectations on this course before starting, it was still quite explanatory and enlightening. So far it looks like the best choice for guys like me, who heard smth about SpriteKit and maybe even played around with but never worked on smth bigger. This course is really motivating, because the game itself is quite funny and entertaining, so you continue improving it and want to jump into your own fancy project. Course instructor perfectly explains lots of materials. Especially those theory lectures, which put in place lots of information. A few things which could be improved in my opinion are code quality, less bugs from the start and the ending. Regarding the last, I found it a bit rushed.

This is definitely one of the best, and most complete game tutorials I've completed. You definitely need programming experience, and a fairly good understanding of Swift is required (otherwise you might not understand '?' for optionals or the '!' for force unwrapping). The content moves along at a quick but easy to follow pace, and I appreciate that I'm not being told yet again how a 'for' loop works, or wasting time on explaining 'if else' statements. The course was very well planned and the instructor never seemed to lose his way when presenting the content. I highly recommend this course for anyone who wants a thorough, but concise introduction to 2D games with SpriteKit and Swift 4.

This is a very good course. I especially liked that the instructor showed early on how to create a SpriteKit game without using the SpriteKit template. This enables true understanding of how game code is structured. The instructor walks through code step by step, and sometimes he explains the "why" and not just the "how." I think it would be of benefit to explain why even more often. Perhaps some structural diagrams would be helpful. A point on presentation is that I sometimes found the instructor's choice of color template for his code to be problematic. The red and violet text on the black background can be difficult to read, but it does not diminish the usefulness of this course.