How to Make a Game Like Mega Jump With Sprite Kit and Swift: Part 2/2

skyrocketsw · March 4, 2016, 12:16pm

In this final part of the tutorial series, you'll finish your game like Mega Jump, and add the level design, accelerometer support, and HUD using Swift and Sprite Kit!

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.raywenderlich.com/2006-how-to-make-a-game-like-mega-jump-with-sprite-kit-and-swift-part-2-2

raleks · September 9, 2016, 10:32am

Hi. Your article is really good for people which just learn how to engineering internal structure of games.long time looking for something like this.

But I got error in code

Moving With the Accelerometer. in code
// 2
motionManager.startAccelerometerUpdatesToQueue(NSOperationQueue.currentQueue(), withHandler: {

get error: Value of option type "NSOperationQueue? not unwrapped; did you mean to use ! or ??

I not well understand this functions. Can you advise how to fix this error?

skyrocketsw · September 9, 2016, 3:17pm

Hello! The Swift language has changed some since this tutorial was written. The iOS SDK has been audited for nullability. Those parameters which are implicitly unwrapped in the code from this tutorial, are optionals now. Here’s the updated code:

motionManager.startAccelerometerUpdatesToQueue(NSOperationQueue.currentQueue()!) { data, error in
  guard data != nil else {
    print("There was an error: \(error)")
    return
  }
        
  let acceleration = data!.acceleration
  self.xAcceleration = (CGFloat(acceleration.x) * 0.75) + (self.xAcceleration * 0.25)
}

Since you’re now using Swift 2, the guard syntax is used to handle any errors.

Here’s what the same bit of code looks like using Swift 3:

motionManager.startAccelerometerUpdates(to: OperationQueue.current!) { data, error in
  guard data != nil else {
    print("There was an error: \(error)")
    return
  }
        
  let acceleration = data!.acceleration
  self.xAcceleration = (CGFloat(acceleration.x) * 0.75) + (self.xAcceleration * 0.25)
}

I hope this helps until we can update this tutorial.

raleks · September 10, 2016, 7:09am

Many Thanks to you for you answer!

gksagri · October 4, 2016, 5:42am

Hi skyrocketsw, Your article helped me to alot in understanding sprite kit. I have a question.
In this part , i.e
if player.position.y > 200.0
{
backgroundNode.position = CGPoint(x: 0.0, y: -((player.position.y - 200.0)/10))
midgroundNode.position = CGPoint(x: 0.0, y: -((player.position.y - 200.0)/4))
foregroundNode.position = CGPoint(x: 0.0, y: -(player.position.y - 200.0))

} We are updating all background , mid ground and foreground nodes.
The player node position is not smooth when the update takes place.(On update player node position is not smooth it acts as glitch). Please help me out to solve this glitch .

Thanks in advance …

pharlequino · October 6, 2016, 1:49pm

Good afternoon, skyrockets! Really need help to make a game like mega jump, the game works fine, but when i go to xcode8 and Swift 3 game stopped working. The game shows the error:

2016-09-17 18:01:52.458231 Little story[558:84710] [DYMTLInitPlatform] platform initialization successful 2016-09-17 18:01:54.918116 Little story[558:84636] Metal GPU Frame Capture Enabled 2016-09-17 18:01:54.919299 Little story[558:84636] Metal API Validation Enabled fatal error: unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value 2016-09-17 18:01:55.380419 Little story[558:84636] fatal error: unexpectedly found nil while unwrapping an Optional value (lldb)

code:

   let levelPlist = Bundle.main.path(forResource: "Level01", ofType: "plist")
    let levelData = NSDictionary(contentsOfFile: levelPlist!)!


    endLevelY = (levelData["EndY"]! as AnyObject).intValue!

    let platforms = levelData["Stars"] as! NSDictionary
    let platformPatterns = platforms["Patterns"] as! NSDictionary
    let platformPositions = platforms["Positions"] as! [NSDictionary]


    for platformPosition in platformPositions {
        let patternX =  (platformPosition["x"] as AnyObject).floatValue
        let patternY = (platformPosition["y"] as AnyObject).floatValue
        let pattern = platformPosition["pattern"] as! NSString

        let platformPattern = platformPatterns[pattern] as! [NSDictionary]
        for platformPoint in platformPattern {
            let x = (platformPoint["x"] as AnyObject).floatValue
            let y = (platformPoint["y"] as AnyObject).floatValue
            let type = PlatformType(rawValue: (platformPoint["type"]! as AnyObject).intValue)

            let positionX = CGFloat(x! + patternX!)
            let positionY = CGFloat(y! + patternY!)
            let platformNode = createPlatformAtPosition(CGPoint(x: positionX, y: positionY), ofType: type!)
            foregroundNode.addChild(platformNode)
        }
    }

    let stars = levelData["Stars"] as! NSDictionary
    let starPatterns = stars["Patterns"] as! NSDictionary
    let starPositions = stars["Positions"] as! [NSDictionary]

    for starPosition in starPositions {
        let patternX = (starPosition["x"] as AnyObject).floatValue
        let patternY = (starPosition["y"] as AnyObject).floatValue
        let pattern = starPosition["pattern"] as! NSString

        let starPattern = starPatterns[pattern] as! [NSDictionary]
        for starPoint in starPattern {
            let x = (starPoint["x"] as AnyObject).floatValue
            let y =  (starPoint["y"] as AnyObject).floatValue
            let type = StarType(rawValue: (starPoint["type"]! as AnyObject).intValue)

was code: let levelPlist = NSBundle.mainBundle().pathForResource(“Level01”, ofType: “plist”)

let levelData = NSDictionary(contentsOfFile: levelPlist!)!

endLevelY = levelData["EndY"]!.integerValue!

let platforms = levelData["Platforms"] as! NSDictionary
let platformPatterns = platforms["Patterns"] as! NSDictionary
let platformPositions = platforms["Positions"] as! [NSDictionary]

for platformPosition in platformPositions {
    let patternX = platformPosition["x"]?.floatValue
    let patternY = platformPosition["y"]?.floatValue
    let pattern = platformPosition["pattern"] as! NSString

    let platformPattern = platformPatterns[pattern] as! [NSDictionary]
    for platformPoint in platformPattern {
        let x = platformPoint["x"]?.floatValue
        let y = platformPoint["y"]?.floatValue
        let type = PlatformType(rawValue: platformPoint["type"]!.integerValue)

        let positionX = CGFloat(x! + patternX!)
        let positionY = CGFloat(y! + patternY!)
        let platformNode = createPlatformAtPosition(CGPoint(x: positionX, y: positionY), ofType: type!)
        foregroundNode.addChild(platformNode)
    }
}

let stars = levelData["Stars"] as! NSDictionary
let starPatterns = stars["Patterns"] as! NSDictionary
let starPositions = stars["Positions"] as! [NSDictionary]

for starPosition in starPositions {
    let patternX = starPosition["x"]?.floatValue
    let patternY = starPosition["y"]?.floatValue
    let pattern = starPosition["pattern"] as! NSString

    let starPattern = starPatterns[pattern] as! [NSDictionary]
    for starPoint in starPattern {
        let x = starPoint["x"]?.floatValue
        let y = starPoint["y"]?.floatValue
        let type = StarType(rawValue: starPoint["type"]!.integerValue)

        let positionX = CGFloat(x! + patternX!)
        let positionY = CGFloat(y! + patternY!)
        let starNode = createStarAtPosition(CGPoint(x: positionX, y: positionY), ofType: type!)
        foregroundNode.addChild(starNode)
    }
}

gksagri · October 7, 2016, 9:47am

Hi pharlequino,

Change your code , wherever it is necessary…

// Load the level
let levelPlist = Bundle.main.path(forResource: “Level01”, ofType: “plist”)
let levelData = NSDictionary(contentsOfFile: levelPlist!)!

    // Height at which the player ends the level
    endLevelY = (levelData["EndY"]! as AnyObject).intValue!
  
        // Add the platforms
        let platforms = levelData["Platforms"] as! NSDictionary
        let platformPatterns = platforms["Patterns"] as! NSDictionary
        let platformPositions = platforms["Positions"] as! [NSDictionary]
        
        for platformPosition in platformPositions {
            let patternX = platformPosition["x"] as! Float
            let patternY = platformPosition["y"] as! Float
            let pattern = platformPosition["pattern"] as! NSString
            
            // Look up the pattern
            let platformPattern = platformPatterns[pattern] as! [NSDictionary]
            for platformPoint in platformPattern {
                let x = platformPoint["x"] as! Float
                let y = platformPoint["y"] as! Float
                let type = PlatformType(rawValue: platformPoint["type"]! as! Int)
                let positionX = CGFloat(x + patternX)
                let positionY = CGFloat(y + patternY )
                let platformNode = createPlatformAtPosition(CGPoint(x: positionX, y: positionY), ofType: type!)
                foregroundNode.addChild(platformNode)
            }
        }
        
        // Add the stars
        let stars = levelData["Stars"] as! NSDictionary
        let starPatterns = stars["Patterns"] as! NSDictionary
        let starPositions = stars["Positions"] as! [NSDictionary]
        
        for starPosition in starPositions {
            let patternX = starPosition["x"] as! Float
            let patternY = starPosition["y"] as! Float
            let pattern = starPosition["pattern"] as! NSString
            
            // Look up the pattern
            let starPattern = starPatterns[pattern] as! [NSDictionary]
            for starPoint in starPattern {
                let x = starPoint["x"] as! Float
                let y = starPoint["y"] as! Float
                let type = StarType(rawValue: starPoint["type"]! as! Int)
                let positionX = CGFloat(x + patternX)
                let positionY = CGFloat(y + patternY )
                let starNode = createStarAtPosition(CGPoint(x: positionX, y: positionY), ofType: type!)
                foregroundNode.addChild(starNode)
            }
        }

Updated with this. And run. Hope you won’t get that error.

pharlequino · October 8, 2016, 5:17pm

Gopalakrishna Upadhyaya, good evening!
Thank you very much! Everything is working! You are the best!

gksagri · October 10, 2016, 7:21am

Hi pharlequino,
Thank you very much…

kenny · May 5, 2017, 9:32am

Hi,
Firstly thank you for a great Tutorial.
I have successfully ported the game to Swift 3 but have a major issue that i cant seem to figure out

When the player jumps / touches stars he jumps right out the top of the screen, i don’t seem to understand why this is happening,

Any advice will be great

Kenny

lu1995happy · January 25, 2018, 7:53pm

Hi, there.

Thanks for your great Tutorial.
I’m facing one issue when I tried to port the game to the newest version of Xcode. I have no idea why the collision part not working at all. Hope you can help me figure this out. Thanks.

Best,
Harry Lu

shogunkaramazov · January 25, 2018, 9:39pm

This tutorial is more than six months old so questions are no longer supported at the moment for it. We will update it as soon as possible. Thank you! :]