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jordan baker
49 PointsSprite Kit Game: Game Over scene instead of just a popup text
I'm following the Space Cat tutorial and I've run into a problem while trying to expand on the simple concepts in the tutorial.
I've created a Game Over Scene that plays a little game over animation and gives the player the option to tap to retry/return to the gameplay scene.
When the player loses, instead of the little "Game Over" popup in SpaceCat, I want to transition to the Game Over Scene.
This is the code that comes with Space Cat
- (void) performGameOver {
THGameOverNode *gameOver = [THGameOverNode >>gameOverAtPosition:CGPointMake(CGRectGetMidX(self.frame), CGRectGetMidY(self.frame))];
[self addChild:gameOver];
self.restart = YES;
self.gameOverDisplayed = YES;
[gameOver performAnimation];
[self.backgroundMusic stop];
[self.gameOverMusic play];
I've tried changing that to this...
- (void) performGameOver {
SKAction * loseAction = [SKAction runBlock:^{
SKTransition *reveal = [SKTransition flipHorizontalWithDuration:0.5];
SKScene * gameOverScene = [[GameOverScene alloc] >>initWithSize:self.size];
[self.backgroundMusic stop];
[self.view presentScene:gameOverScene transition: reveal];
}];
[self runAction:[SKAction sequence:@[loseAction]]];
self.restart = YES;
self.gameOverDisplayed = YES;
[self.backgroundMusic stop];
}
This isn't working, and I'm not sure how to fix it. It seems like it should be a pretty easy fix. Anybody have any ideas for how to make this work within the Space Cat framework?
3 Answers
Stone Preston
42,016 PointsYou never run the action. you probably should not use an action to present the scene anyways. try it like this:
- (void) performGameOver {
[self.backgroundMusic stop];
self.restart = YES;
self.gameOverDisplayed = YES;
[self.backgroundMusic stop];
SKTransition *reveal = [SKTransition flipHorizontalWithDuration:0.5];
GameOverScene *gameOverScene = [[GameOverScene alloc] initWithSize:self.size];
[self.view presentScene:gameOverScene transition: reveal];
}
jordan baker
49 PointsThanks for the quick reply!
Hmmm that's giving me an unknown exception. The simulator force quits when the game over is triggered. I'm not great at deciphering the error codes yet. Here's what it's giving me.
return UIApplicationMain(argc, argv, nil, NSStringFromClass([THAppDelegate class]));
}
libc++abi.dylib: terminating with uncaught exception of type NSException
(lldb)
Stone Preston
42,016 Pointslook in the debug console, there should be some more information in there that will tell you exactly what caused the exception. you may need to scroll up or down some to find it
jordan baker
49 PointsEh, it must be a problem with my Game Over Scene because if I sub THTitleScene in for GameOverScene it works just fine.
If I'm looking at the right place, this is what I see in the debug console.
argv char ** 0xbfffede0 0xbfffede0
*argv char * "/Users/creativeadmin/Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/7.1/Applications/0C47DEFF-DF15-4336-9367-79A28FFBA7D0/Noah7.app/Noah7" 0xbfffef4c
**argv char '/' '/'
argc int 1 1
Stone Preston
42,016 Pointsno thats not the info you need. It should say something like terminating app due to uncaught exception...then right after that show the method call that did it
jordan baker
49 PointsOh! Dang. That was easy. Got it fixed. Forgot to load the texture atlas when I imported the GameOverScene. Thanks Stone!