I have a Direction enum that I use to position UI layers in my adventure game. It supports 8 compass directions plus a case for centre:
public enum Direction : String, CaseIterable, Codable {
case center, north, northeast, east, southeast, south, southwest, west, northwest
}
For the third time in the last couple of years, I’ve found myself reaching for Apple’s Scanner class. Every time I use it I find myself tripping over the deceptively simple API.
This is my attempt to document it in a way that I understand for future reference.
(You’re welcome, future me.)
Now that the physics is working for this basic node component, let’s make it a full contact sport. Contact detection is a huge benefit of using a physics engine, so in this SpriteKit tutorial I want to make sure that we can still enjoy those benefits while adhering closely to my weird interpretation of Entity Component Systems.