Sprite Kit: A game changer or wasted opportunity?

My presentation on Sprite Kit during July 10th CocoaHeads meeting.

Transcript

1. Sprite Kit A Gamer Changer or A Time Waster?
2. kotaro@tomatoboy.co Kotaro Fujita tomatoboy.co @wild37
3. Why do we make games? Clearly to distract our kids from annoying us. I’m high on life! Honest! Sup, son?!
4. History of Sprite Kit a.k.a. (If you need to catch up on sleep, now is the time.)
6. Bahahaha! Zynga rulez!
7. Sprite Kit version 1.0 Sup, son?!
9. SKNode SKScene SKLabelNode SKSpriteNode SKEffectNode
11. iOS 8 a.k.a. (What’s gonna break in my game?)
12. Swift? a.k.a. (Can I avoid all this Objection C thingy?)
13. Sprite Kit vs Scene Kit a.k.a. (So, can I make a 3D version of Flappy Bird?)
15. Demo Time! a.k.a (crap! I gotta actually show code)
16. The Competition
17. Worth it? FIGHT! a.k.a. (Why would I ever do this in Sprite Kit?)
18. RETRO SPARKLE appstore.com/retrosparkle
19. • http://www.raywenderlich.com • http://www.sprite-kit.com • http://www.reddit.com/r/spritekit • http://www.learn-cocos2d.com/blog/
20. http://www.phillygameforge.com
21. kotaro@tomatoboy.co Kotaro Fujita tomatoboy.co