sprite-kit swift character select sort of menu?

Question

i am making a sprite-kit game for IOS, and i want to add a something similar to a character select menu, how would i do that ?

searched around on the web and didn't find any pages that could solve my problem

Hades, your question is much too broad because there are dozens of ways to do what you are asking. I urge you to read what kind of questions are valid to ask. http://stackoverflow.com/help/asking — sangony, Aug 29 '15 at 13:52
@sangony I know there are multiple ways of doing it, but i just need a pointer in the right direction, like a link to a webpage that shows how to do this or an example of one of those methods — Hades, Aug 29 '15 at 13:58
Fair enough. Take a look at the written tutorials on the Ray Wenderlich site. http://www.raywenderlich.com — sangony, Aug 29 '15 at 14:00

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 09 '15 at 13:52

What I would do is to create another view controller or SKScene.

If you are going to use an SKScene do:

You can add SpriteNodes to the shop menu and detect which sprite the user has clicked on.

override func touchesBegan(touches: Set<NSObject>, withEvent event: UIEvent) {

    for touch in (touches as! Set<UITouch>) {

        let touchLocation = touch.locationInNode(self)

        let touchedNode = nodeAtPoint(touchLocation)


    if touchedNode.name == ... {
        chosen character = touchednode
    } else if touchedNode.name == "Blah blah" { ... etc

or if you are using a view controller you may want to use a table view controller.

You can add a table-view controller and embed it in a navigation controller. The cells will have all the characters. When the user clicks a certain cell in the navigation controller, the clicked cell will be the chosen character. For more info you can go to apple's website: https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/referencelibrary/GettingStarted/DevelopiOSAppsSwift/Lesson7.html

Hope this helped.

sprite-kit swift character select sort of menu?

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