Day 79
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Project 23, part three
With that monster project finished, there are four things you need to do:
- Feel smug that you made an awesome game.
- Play that awesome game and post your best scores on social media.
- Complete the review for project 23.
- Complete all three challenges
At this point in the 100 days thereโs a good chance youโre feeling tired, and might even be tempted to skip a few of these challenges. I hope you donโt, though โ these challenges are here to help stretch you a little, and to make sure youโre able to apply what you learned in a new context.
Shigeru Miyamoto โ the legendary Japanese game designer who gave us Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, and more โ once said โto create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it.โ Thatโs the goal here: every time you dive into a challenge and get it solved, youโre leveling up your Swift skills, and setting a new standard for what you can do in the future.
Trust me: by the time youโve finished these 100 days and completed all the challenges, all the milestones, and all the reviews, the standard youโll be working to will be unrecognizably different from where you were on day 1 โ youโre doing a great job!
Today you should work through the wrap up chapter for project 23, complete its review, then work through all three of its challenges.
Wrap up
Wrap up
You've just finished a massive project, and regardless of how much you have learned you deserve kudos for all your patience. This project required you to follow several long steps before you could see your code run. I hope it was worth it, and I hope in retrospect that you can see why all the code was needed.
Along the way, you've learned all about SKShapeNode, AVAudioPlayer, physics speed, CaseIterable, removeFirst(), action groups, and more, so you're several steps closer to your goal of being an experienced Swift developer. Well done!
Review what you learned
Anyone can sit through a tutorial, but it takes actual work to remember what was taught. Itโs my job to make sure you take as much from these tutorials as possible, so Iโve prepared a short review to help you check your learning.
Click here to review what you learned in project 23.
Challenge
One of the best ways to learn is to write your own code as often as possible, so here are three ways you should try your new knowledge to make sure you fully understand whatโs going on:
- Try removing the magic numbers in the
createEnemy()method. Instead, define them as constant properties of your class, giving them useful names. - Create a new, fast-moving type of enemy that awards the player bonus points if they hit it.
- Add a โGame overโ sprite node to the game scene when the player loses all their lives.
Wrap up - Additional