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I tried searching and couldn't find the answer. Is it necessary to have a matching .sks file for each of my scene files? If I delete my matching .sks files will there be a problem? I understand this file is kind of for interface building but I haven't utilized them at all.

Paulo Mattos
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No, you don't need them. You can create all your SKScene content directly in Swift code.

Just keep in mind that Xcode 8 support for SpriteKit Scenes is pretty nice, providing a nice game design/production workflow. In particular, you can create *.sks files with simple, reusable nodes (e.g., crates, monsters, coins, etc) and use them across your game.

Having said that, please double check your *.sks files are actually empty before deleting them all ;-)

Paulo Mattos
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No, but if you don't want to use them, you will have to change the way that your GameViewController.swift file instantiates your scene - instead of:

let scene = SKSCene(fileNamed: "GameScene")

you will have to use 

let scene = SKSCene(size: CGSize)
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