I guess Flappy Bird is now a tier 2 "hello world" :)
It certainly would be cool if it were.
Flappy Bird in Swift
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Re: Flappy Bird in Swift
#12Does this need IOS8 to run?
Is there a way to get that without being a signed up dev with Apple?
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#13From the GIF in the readme, it looks like collision detection is broken.
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#14Well that didn't take long...
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#15If you're new to functional programming styles this swift project might be more relevant: https://github.com/maxpow4h/swiftz
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#16FAST AS HELL! :P Thanks a lot!
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
SpriteKit was released last year with iOS 7. It's a pretty much self-contained 2D game engine like Cocos2D, including stuff like physics simulation. iOS 8 is going to ship with SceneKit, which is similar but for simple 3D games.
How extensive is the physics engine implementation?
Wikipedia claims that SpriteKit uses the Box2D engine internally: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box2D
Re: Flappy Bird in Swift
#18Does this need IOS8 to run? Is there a way to get that without being a signed up dev with Apple?
It shouldn't need iOS 8 to run because it compiles down to the same native code that Objective-C apps and Rubymotion apps do.
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#19This being the only code sample of swift I've seen, my overriding takeaway is that for the basic stuff it's remarkably similar to Objective-C with a lick of paint.
If people really take to swift, it'll be interesting to see if that's because it creates a shift in programming style, or because people really are just afraid of small syntactical differences.
Re: Flappy Bird in Swift
#20I just started exploring the Book: The Swift Programming Language by Apple Inc.
Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/the-swift-programming-langu...
Hope it helps.