Making Apple Watch Apps

I spent part of December working on an Apple Watch game demo. I was looking for a quick native project that I could get my teeth into over the Christmas break and thought it would be fun to write an endless runner. I actually couldn’t find any Apple Watch endless runners on the App Store […]

Boulders and Spikes

I said in my previous post that I’d show off some more levels from my Tomb Jump game demo. So here’s a video of the game’s hardest difficult setting. While I was more than happy with my earlier level designs I thought it would be cool to try and recreate the sense of action and […]

Tomb Jump

Here’s a little game demo I bashed together at the beginning of the year. I’d been playing Mr Jump on my iPhone for an insanely long time and thought it might be a good idea to try and build my own game borrowing some of its elements. So I spent a few weeks coding Tomb […]

Game Development with Swift

I’d been itching to do a bit more Swift development recently but hadn’t had much spare time. Plus, every time I set myself a small project, it quickly grows arms & legs and ends up another one of those things I started but never got close to finishing. So I thought I’d just pick up […]

Objective-C Endless Runner Source Code

Okay folks, that’s a first pass at the Objective-C version of my endless runner’s parallax scroller. I’d been meaning to take a look at SpriteKit for a while now so thought I’d use it as my rendering option. I was thinking about targeting the full range of iOS devices (Retina and non-Retina iPhones, iPads, and […]