Make Flappy Bird! (Pt. 1 : Swift 2 in Xcode : SpriteKit)

[@Coolnventions]

Its insane to think that some guy sat at home and wrote this code for the first time and was pulling 60k a day from when it went viral

[@Archetapp]

+Coolnventions Haha, yep! Wish it could've been me, haha. :)

[@crimson5732]

+Coolnventions Im not being sarcastic here, but i honestly dont know how a free game like flappy bird makes money, even when it goes viral. Probably ads but thats all i can think of

[@ICEAL]

+Crimson it was on the app store for a dollar, it wasn't free. or at least the time i tried to dl it.

[@minipanonymous]

+Iceal Alarcon it was always free, but when you died ads would display at the top of the game. People clicking them made him money

[@gh0stxx728]

Am new to Swift and Programming .. and I look for small tutorials that can teach me what things are and how they work .. and you have made it easy to interact with the task to making this game and not too difficult to understand thanks to your brief explanations on things like collisions and physics ..THANK YOU

[@Archetapp]

After a long wait, here it is! Make Flappy Bird! (Swift 2 in Xcode : SpriteKit) Share! P.S I'm noticing, watching the video right now, that in some parts, the positioning of the video is not working properly, sorry if that makes it a little bit confusing! I don't think its that big of a deal, but if you have any question about any part, feel free to ask! :)

[@Robospidera1]

+Jared Davidson (Archetapp) A question I have is how would you add a background to the game?

[@Archetapp]

+Elliot Williams I'll go over this in the series, but here's an article that might help. :) www.ioscreator.com/tutorials/add-background-image-in-sprite-kit

[@Robospidera1]

Okay thanks :) I ended up using this 1 from the same site since the 1 you sent me gave me errors.. but heres the url I used. its from 2014. www.ioscreator.com/tutorials/display-background-with-sprite-kit-and-swift

[@noobeast6208]

+Jared Davidson (Archetapp) One question. You know what i love to see you do to improve the video intro (small but useful). When your video starts you can show us a small clip of what we are going to learn/do in the video. IUnderstand what i am saying? i find it hard to explain. If you understand, what is your thoughts about my idea?

[@MrSaurabhnanda]

i have six button in a view controller and i want that when i click on each button data will display after fetching from server in next view . and data will different for each button

[@young9534]

You are a homie for making this.

[@mitchwar2065]

Great Vid, Could you please make an updated one for Xcode 9 and Swift 4

[@yuvrajrandhawa2996]

Keep up the great videos. Every time I have a problem with my code, your always the person I go to. This tutorial helped me with an app I'm developing. Keeping up loading these fantastic videos. :)

[@mb345]

Looking forward to the second video. Your videos are really well made. Thank you for taking the time it takes to put them together.

[@КулерМалиночив]

"How to use Flappy Bird. Very useful skill." Thanks for making my day dude xD And amazing tutorial. When my Macbook will be delivered I will finally program in Swift :)

[@RockDavid]

I guess a helping hand for those doing this in Swift 3 Ios8, figured i'd be a bit common sense, but for the help its always nice to have. Main.story board is what you use for about the first 13 minutes of the video, no need to hard code anything just yet.

[@tiffanygrey6204]

Can you do an update? The system is different and I’m struggling with making this game

[@programmingwithmichael5304]

watch my vids

[@aidansawyer4246]

+Jared Davidson (Archetapp) i would just like to say that i have been watching for a bout 1 minute and this tutorial already seems great. Its very easy to follow and very "clean" Thanks a lot and keep up the good work

[@lampree]

Your videos are so fun and easy to follow! Thanks!

[@Archetapp]

+KyStride Glad you like them! Thanks for watching! :)

[@TimeFluidProgramming]

+Jared Davidson (Archetapp) Hey. Thanks for the awesome videos. Can you please show me/us how to add sounds. Such as background music, sound when girds tapped, and a dying sound? Thanks.

[@JYFilm-gf8yb]

Where can I get the pictures?

[@adamel-kadi5179]

I truely wish there was a MEGA THUMBS UP.... Best video on earth.... AMazing job, I subbed and Liked truely amazing dude keep it up...

[@LuisGuzman-nm5jd]

thank you i am learning a lot from you, i just start programming with apple 6 months ago. I used to do software only with IBM. I really like Xcode

[@Archetapp]

+Luis Guzman Nice! Thanks for watching, glad I could help. :)

[@infantisify]

Cool! Best tutorial ever: nice speed of explanation, nice style, nice jokes)

[@victorford1736]

Very helpful Jared. I enjoy your tutorials and hope to produce some great stuff. Thanks for the help!

[@Archetapp]

+Victor Ford Glad you enjoy them! Thanks for watching! :)

[@Hyderium]

Hey @Jared! first of all thanks so much for the superb tutorial. Following it to create my own game. I am new to spriteKit, so may I ask questions as I proceed? 1. Why did you create walls as SKNode? and why created ghost / ground with SKSpriteNode? Like what's the difference?

[@garrettlovetv]

Really like the videos but I'm so confused. I took a Udemy course on swift and understand the syntax, but I still have no idea how to do anything. How do you know what to write and where to write it? Also if you haven't already, can you make a video on the file types that we're working with, what they do, when to use them, etc...

[@vegetas310]

read a book or apple documentation

[@fahdfuhaid573]

I'm a member at Lynda.com and Pluralsight, and bought some Udemy courses .. Honestly, your tutorials are better than what available on those sites for swift and ios. They are boring most of the time.

[@Archetapp]

+‫أبو أسامة‬‎ Thank you so much! :)

[@PugzofSteel]

I'm studying structs in visual basic right now. When should I use a struct? Are structs like a mini class?

[@slablife]

Great video! Sub'd! Side note - I work a few blocks from Temple Square, so it was cool seeing your desktop background.

[@kenaramaki]

Great video, mate! Thank you!I hope more tutorials like this come up soon!

[@torcordeiro]

Thank you for these videos I'm really excited to learn how to use flappy bird!

[@jagg88]

Yay flappy bird again! :) I followed yours when you first did it but think I bodged the rest of it when I couldn't follow the udemy you suggested ;)

[@Archetapp]

+jagg88 Haha, yeah, it;s been a while, and I have learned a lot more about Swift since then. :)

[@jagg88]

+Jared Davidson (Archetapp) if you think about it only a year and a bit! Which is quite impressive that your knowledge has grown that much in a year!

[@Archetapp]

+jagg88 Videos man, if you want to learn more about programming, start your own channel, haha. Pushes you to learn so much more. :)

[@EliasGroesel]

Hello Jared, Im trying to program this in Swift3. You know already when there will be an update on these videos? I need some help! But nevertheless, great!!

[@SuhailAmeen46]

great video dude....looking forward to more

[@justinbabcock3128]

I am having a problem when this video hits about 8:38, my top wall and btm wall have errors saying unresolved indentifier 'self' , i think my code looks exactly the same as yours, what am i possibly diong wrong?

[@Dave.zmrmnn]

+Jared Davidson (Archetapp) One question !! Can u show us how to put a sound when the ghost hits the Ground ?

[@lisalarsson5202]

You are so talented!

[@mrheatmichael]

After you finish these codes, can you put the app directly on to your own iPhone?

[@eduardovaraniespoladore2112]

Does anybody know any app to create the character, walls and ground, please?

[@benedictt3212]

Just found your channel. Amazing tutorials. Subbed!

[@Herman-ge2ux]

Keep on the super work! Please make a Egg CAR clone.

[@jeremymelloul993]

Hello Jared, here is my question (sorry for my bad english i'm french :p) I wanted to know how did you master swift at this point !? you know a lot of thing and i'm really impressed. where did you learn swift, how to use spriteKit, please help me :) if you have any advice, please give me it

[@unlockingmusic6691]

Hi Archetapp, congratulations on your videos. I have a question: I am unable to open a file with XCode. The problem it presents to me is "Unexpected closing of XCode" when I try to open the file. What do you think it can be due to? Thanks again for all your videos, keep it up.

[@shahoftrading]

When will this be updated in Swift 3? I cant wait to try this out!

[@BrianBecker]

Thanks! How's the social media? And ps good luck on your upcoming test!

[@Archetapp]

+Brian B Thanks! Haven't had too much time to work on it, but I'll be sure to work more on it during Winter Break. :)

[@krisdundurs6672]

Great vids mate, keep up the good work!

[@marian_tsx]

this tutorial is amazing Jared, ty.. keep it going!

[@jaspervisser181]

Hi. I got stuck at the very beginning. My wall is in the middle, and to the right in the simulator. I thought maybe the problem goes away when I keep coding, but now I'm at like 5:50 and when I added the red ghost, I see him right in the top corner... What am I doing wrong? I am using the newest xCode. My code: override func didMove(to view: SKView) { Ground = SKSpriteNode(imageNamed: "Ground") Ground.setScale(0.5) Ground.position = CGPoint(x: self.frame.width / 2, y: 0 + Ground.frame.height / 2) self.addChild(Ground) Ghost = SKSpriteNode(imageNamed: "Ghost") Ghost.size = CGSize(width: 60, height: 70) Ghost.position = CGPoint(x: self.frame.width / 2 - Ghost.frame.width, y: self.frame.height / 2) self.addChild(Ghost) }

[@zachellis5848]

Jared love your videos so informative and easy to follow one thing I'm looking to add is audio for background and whenever a coin is collected for my flappy bird clone. I have the code for background but can you help with the coin Thank you

[@TheTrexTeam1]

I can't make sense of the pixels on the .sks, I can't make stuff snap into place, I can't get the coordinate system, which for you started on the bottom, but for me on the .sks starts in the middle. You didn't delete the "Hello, world" either. Can I do this on a regular Single View Application, with the .storyboard,because this SpriteKit thing has too many windows and gravity and swift files and .sks files, which I don't need? It's taken me hours to find all this stuff out, and now I can't use it. All I'm doing is this: Plotting 3 images for my corners of a triangle with set coordinates Choosing a known starting point, which will then make another point halfway in between the it and a randomly chosen corner And then using the new point as the start and doing it again All I need to know is how to systematically add images to set locations, like addChild. From there I'll use a for-x to do it quickly.

[@HurricaneForceGaming]

None of this looks the same in the new Xcode 8.2 with Swift 3

[@RockDavid]

Yeah, i've gone though this, and just finished first video...just about 90% of the code i did on the main.storyboard -> how much easier it has gotten for sure.

[@danielrhondeau3921]

Hey Jared, I came across this video and saw the temple in the background. Are you in Utah? I have an app idea and wanna talk. Just lemme know thanks g

[@jerziekspicer-rippy3384]

i cant find the images that you used

[@praveenkumarguda4029]

Hello @Jared Davidson thanks for your videos i'm doing one project which is similar to this for my exams. In my project player will jump over obstacle coming on his way but the problem is when i tried to jump over that obstacle but its not allowing me can you help me please.

[@kristinakacmarova4813]

What did you use to make the images? (Ghost, walls and ground?)

[@ojassethi3722]

Awesome tutorial! Please make the part 2 quick! ;)

[@ojassethi3722]

Please tell about how would you remove the nodes and fps thing in the next video :) Thanks a ton!

[@gregorious6507]

+Ojas Sethi To remove the fps, go to the view controller and you should see skView.showFPS = true. You can change it to false

[@F17A]

do i have to have a dev account or member or whatever its name is?

[@ojassethi3722]

I have a question +Jared Davison. How would you remove the nodes and fps thin gat the bottom of the screen?

[@ojassethi3722]

Thank you very much!

[@homestar52]

Does the ghost get resized when running on a bigger screen like an iPad? (idk if the scene scale mode affects it)

[@ots1166]

what is the 0x1

[@moyerr]

0x is the prefix for a hexadecimal integer literal. 1 is to say that we want the hex value 1 (which is the same as the decimal 1, or the binary 0001)

[@yizhenshi7279]

I was trying to add the ground, however the ground picture is in the middle of right side. and just have half of them been showed up. i had the exactly same (well i think those r same, i just doing exactly what you did). Do you know why? BTW, i just download those image in your Xcode files. Would that case this problem? And this video is AWESOME!!!

[@jaspervisser181]

I got exactly the same

[@MrCreeper20k]

I encountered the same problem and I think its because the coordinate system of the scene changed in recent updates. The origin (0,0), isn't in the bottom right anymore, its in the middle. So to set the ground to line up with the left, you can do something like Ground.position = CGPoint( x: self.frame.width / -2 Alternatively, you could just make the ground as wide as the screen and in the middle of the screen by putting its x-position at 0 and changing its size like so: Ground.size = CGSize(width: self.frame.width , height: Ground.frame.height)

[@benjaminsides8026]

Another alternative is to move the the origin point back to the bottom in the GameScene.sks file.

[@olliebrown588]

can you explain how to do this? Thanks

[@lukaspga]

Well, when I try to open the GameScene.sks file, xCode crashes =/ Googled it and seems like an old bug that haven`t solution. Theres a way to edit these ski files without xCode?

[@rahulshivade5302]

Hi can you please make a tutorial on CIFilters using swift

[@samuelengstrom5863]

when does the part 2 come ? :) Thank you you are the best :)

[@uryu251]

how come i dont have the gamescene.swift tab?

[@carolynstampeen1918]

How did you know/decide to set the Physics Categories with " UInt32 = 0x1"? Nicely done, as expected. :)

[@thejasonreal]

How do we reduce the force of gravity? or slow the rate of the Ghost falling?

[@Shotbyrothepro]

how do i change the back ground color, how do i make it to where when my object hits the "wall" the game returns back to start screen. how do i add sound , how do i add start button ,score table etc..

[@sofalofa9541]

What version of xcode did you use?

[@WhiteGloveBox]

Can you make a tutorial on how to design the assets and then exporting and importing them to a project? Thanks man

[@jollyjuhi8497]

Hello I wrote the same code as u wrote but my ghost will be disappeared after writing the code of affectedbyGravity and dynamic so please help me for this

[@ChrisTurnbull23]

Why is my ghost rotating when i click? I probably typed something in wrong but i don't know. Can't wait for part 3 of the series

[@janwarrensimpadua815]

Is it the same using swift 3?

[@miroslawkosciolko]

Great job !!! Please more ambitious lessons :)

[@icecubez8581]

Hi, Jared.i really like your demo on the flappy bird using Xcode 7 I would greatly appreciate it if you make a game like candy crush with swift xcode7 thanks a lot in advance

[@Robospidera1]

In the next part can you also show us how to add a score to the flappy bird in swift... I haven't been able to figure it out yet.

[@Archetapp]

+Elliot Williams Plan on doing that. Maybe not the next part, but we'll see. :)

[@byteappple]

Hey Jared! I have a quick question: Can you explain me how do the struct "PhysicsCategory" contents work? The -> static let ghost: UInt32 = 0x1

[@candicenevarez2075]

I know you said swift 3 is a little different but I can not get the ground image to be on the bottom.

[@chabz8764]

It says that the GameScene has no member 'width'. What should I do?

[@Zainanjum100]

unable to click on app after putting jump coordinates but in the video u can tap on app and your ghost jump

[@mmck174]

hey, were do you download flappy bird user tools

[@rhubahb]

How did you get those objects?

[@Ayoub-by3gx]

Hi do i need experience in swift programming to folow this tutorial ? (I have experience with android and c++ )

[@souravvashisht9658]

My ghost is going down it don't stops on ground. What can I do for this kind of problem..

[@alextanasescu1649]

if i wanted to make it landscape mode instead of portrait mode how would i do that?

[@samuelengstrom5863]

I really appreciate you Thx! But make longer episodes of an especially app like a training app or a homework app or something like that :) So we can follow and learn many things that we can use in our programming :) Thank you again Best Regards Samuel

[@raheelqamar1518]

Every single time when I open the simulator after adding a new variable, it shows an X. How do I fix that?

[@ZakariaBoualaid]

+Raheel Qamar That means you made a mistake while putting the name of an image in your code, it should match the images you imported into your project. xCode turns the not found images to X.

[@valbonarexha1607]

the images are not in the description

[@AppleiMac2007]

In newer Versions of Xcode are the zero Position at center

[@Natalie-li9zu]

Ur pure awesomeness! Keep it up!

[@latisimus4751]

Greetings, having an issue with calling the function we created "createWalls" in the didMoveToView. get an error called "Value of type 'GameScene' has no member 'createWalls' Its most likely do to the new Swift updates that have happened over the 6 months... Anyway to fix it Also says: 2016-07-05 14:47:03.481 FlappyClone[489:95532] : calling -display has no effect.

[@SupremeChief1]

Hey, I ran the simulator just like u mentioned at 8:59 and it appears black to me. I wrote down every single code

[@PranshuRanakoti]

Nice tutorial man! but i am facing a problem, when i run it, the simulator opens up a quite big screen and i can't fit everything on my screen in the simulator and i have to scroll it down again and again!

[@missodessaTV]

+!11UM!N47! when you open the simulator app there's a bar at the very top of your computer screen click "window" then select scale and change the size to 50% or something lower that will fit your screen. It also depends on what iphone/ipad model you're running the simulator on they all have different screen sizes.

[@PranshuRanakoti]

thanks i found another way of doing it in the view controller of the pp, there is an option for screen size in inches and we can scale it to our needs :)

[@chatzi09]

Hey, I cant get the ground to show, theses just a massive black bar on the bottom of the display. 3:32 Ground = SKSpriteNode(imageNamed: "Ground") Ground.setScale(0.5) Ground.position = CGPoint(x: self.frame.width / 2, y: 0 + Ground.frame.height / 2) self.addChild(Ground)

[@Alenajellybeans]

You said the ghost needed to be 200x200 but in the video it says 147x200 ?

[@lucasdaje3372]

mas que un maestro un mentor, thanks.

[@gonesurfin8405]

Not sure if this is just me, but when I run my app in the simulator with 1phone 7 as the hardware, the ground and my ghost appear smaller than yours do. Hallllp :( >.

[@purelego]

how do you change direction of the gravity?

[@anthonymikinka]

Hey Jared Im have a problem here with identifying self here is my code. As well as the full colors aren't showing up either with the self.frame.height and .width Any help would be nice! Thanks func createWalls(){ let wallPair = SKNode() let topWall = SKSpriteNode(imageNamed: "Wall") let btmWall = SKSpriteNode(imageNamed: "Wall") topWall.position = CGPoint(x: self.frame.width / 2, y: self.frame.height / 2) btmWall.position = CGPoint(x: self.frame.width / 2, y: self.frame.height / 2) topWall.setScale(0.5) btmWall.setScale(0.5) wallPair.addChild(topWall) wallPair.addChild(btmWall) self.addChild(wallPair)

[@TheHasanboy]

+Anthony Mikinka (xXKillStreakzXx) I have a problem, too. When I start the simulator, it shows nothing and in the log there is a notification: CUICatalog: Invalid Request: requesting subtype without specifying idom

[@clearydavid50]

What is the "?" for after physicsBody? What does it do?

[@aladdin_mck]

for the ghost picture you said to use a 200 x 200 pixel but the video said 147 x 200... Confused as to which one should actually be used.

[@torcordeiro]

I tried both and they both worked

[@اسماءابراهيم-ت3ط]

I can't fond rectangleofSize in my SKphysicsBody please help 😟😟

[@jamesreal3713]

How to you create your own image?

[@scrapmechanictv3874]

for me it says Expected Declaration what do i do ?/? please i need help

[@simonpardo7739]

Instead of of the straight line can is use ; ???

[@jordan59961]

Are you John Green from Crash Course?

[@Archetapp]

No, this is Patrick.

[@reequrmotion3906]

what is expected declaration