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iOS Build a Game with Sprite Kit Particle Systems and Keeping Score Game Over Animation

Bradley White
Bradley White
21,285 Points
Posted by Bradley White
Bradley White
21,285 Points

Game Over won't animate

As always, I've watched the video multiple times and looked at my code multiple times. The game over node won't animate. At one point I altered the code somehow and got it to animate but it didn't have a correct position when animating. I coded a NSLog before and after the run block to add the touch to start label. The completion block is completely skipped based on the fact it logs before and after the block. I can't post the code at the moment but if anyone has a clue what's going on, fill me in. The run action is in the runSequence action along with the scaleUp and scaleDown actions.

1 Answer

Bradley White
Bradley White
21,285 Points
Bradley White
Bradley White
21,285 Points

Found it!

After creating the gameOverLabel, I typed "gameOver.name =" instead of "gameOverLabel.name =" !!!

The compiler didn't through any errors because the gameOverNode gameOver is created in the same local scope before the label.

Why does it always happen that answer is found after posting here?!

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