Coming into HS Hacks, I wanted to try something new, and I was mainly interested in creating iOS apps/games. I immediately learnt the basics of xcode, and I was able to make this fun game!
Space Battle is a space shooter game where the player's spaceship defends its mothership from the intruding alien ships. By shooting missiles, the player can eliminate the enemies. However, if the alien ships get to the mother ship, you lose one of your 3 lives. Once all three lives are gone, the game ends.
Through many tutorials and friends who have developed iOS apps, I managed to learn a lot about Xcode and used my time at HS Hacks to create the game.
There were many bugs in the code since I was unexperienced in iOS development coming in. However, through multiple revisions of the code, I managed to fix everything.
At one point, I was ready to quit and started to watch a movie with my friends to kill time. But I just couldn't stop thinking about the game, so I immediately went back to working on it and through the night, I finally created it.
I learned A TON about iOS game development, and how to make applications using xcode.
After learning more advanced development, I am planning to make the game a lot more complex, adding bigger and badder enemies and cool features and levels that a player can play with.
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