Infinity Wheel
2015
#iOS # Swift #Xcode #Illustrator #SpriteKit
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Infinity Wheel is a single-player iOS mobile game written in Swift using the SpriteKit framework in Xcode.
The basic premise of the little arcade game is to get the ball through as many obstacles as possible for the highest score. The player only has control of the wheel, as the ball moves in a fixed sinusoidal motion. Pressing and holding the screen makes the wheel spin faster. Each obstacle avoided gives the player a point! The wheel spins endlessly, so the game ends when the ball hits an obstacle.
This began as a personal side project in the summer of 2015. It provided me a solid introduction to Swift and game development.
I used a reference manual called iOS Games by Tutorials (2nd Edition).
Design
From the beginning, the plan was to design a game that somehow reversed the core mechanic of similar titles like Flappy Bird. This was accomplished by having the player control the obstacles instead of the ball itself.