SKJoystick

SKJoystick is a retro-arcade joystick for SpriteKit

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SKJoystick is a library written in Swift to create a typical retro arcade joystick for SpriteKit. Using a couple of textures , the famous SKEase library to simulate the elastic bouncing animation. I've added also three buttons to have a complete control scene to move your hero, jump, fire and made other actions..

• Features
• ToDo
• Requirements
• Communication
• Installation
• Usage
• License

Features

Creating a joystick node :

    - convenience init(texture: SKTexture?, color: SKColor = .clear, size: CGSize = CGSize(width:200.0,height:200.0),knob:String! = "blueKnob.png") {
      Initializes a new SKSpriteNode object aka our joystick.

• 8 directions: up, down, left, righ and diagonals
• change color, alpha and size
• knowing in time real the directions and the releasing through delegate methods

ToDo

• new knob textures

Requirements

• iOS 9.0+
• Xcode 9.2+
• Swift 4.0+

Communication

• If you found a bug, open an issue.
• If you have a feature request, open an issue.
• If you want to contribute, submit a pull request.

Installation

Add the source folder to your project and use it.

Usage

class GameScene: SKScene, SKJoystickDelegate {
    var joyStick : SKJoystick!
    override func didMove(to view: SKView) {
        // Show joystick
        let joySize = CGSize(width:300,height:300)
        joyStick = SKJoystick.init(texture: nil, color: .clear, size: joySize, knob:"blueKnob.png")
        self.addChild(joyStick)
        joyStick.zPosition = 1
        joyStick.alpha = 0.5
        joyStick.position = CGPoint(x:self.frame.width/7,y:self.frame.height/4)
        joyStick.isUserInteractionEnabled = true
        joyStick.delegate = self
    }

Follow the example located to GameScene.swift to understand the delegate methods (really simple to use..), the property direction contain one of these constants:

enum Sense: Int {
    case UP = 0
    case UP_RIGHT = 1
    case RIGHT = 2
    case DOWN_RIGHT = 3
    case DOWN = 4
    case DOWN_LEFT = 5
    case LEFT = 6
    case UP_LEFT = 7
    case RELEASED = 8
}

License

SKJoystick is released under the MIT License