Creating a tiled hex game with Swift

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I'm new to Swift / Objective-C but have been coding Mac and Windows apps / games for years using Xojo (similar to Visual Basic).

I want to make a simple turn-based strategy game with a tiled hex map and I want to do it in Swift for Mac OS X. What technology is best to start with? Can this be achieved with SpriteKit or are there any other open source tile engines I can use with Swift to give me a head start (whilst I could write my own hex engine, I'd rather not as that's not the fun part of making a game!).

You should ask this kind kind of question on http://gamedev.stackexchange.com — sangony, Mar 15 '15 at 17:03

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 15 '15 at 17:20

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There are open source tile engines you can use. "Tiled" is one of the ones I've used, recommended by the ray wenderlich team. It gives a nice visual representation of the map.

answered Mar 15 '15 at 17:20

Kelvin Lau

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can you provide a link to "Tiled" engine? – Ivan Fateev Mar 15 '15 at 17:31
You might want to give a look to Ray Wenderlich website as advised and JSTileMap on github. – lchamp Mar 15 '15 at 20:13

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 05 '16 at 09:43

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I'm actually using the new TileMapNode class added to SpriteKit in Xcode 8, iOS 10/macOS 10.12. It's a very elegant solution.

answered Aug 05 '16 at 09:43

Garry Pettet

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Creating a tiled hex game with Swift

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