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jordan baker
49 PointsSpriteKit - controlling how quickly the player can shoot
I feel like the biggest problem with a game like space cat is that the player can just tap with all of their fingers as fast as they want and they will never lose the game.
Has anyone tried to tackle this problem? Perhaps by having a bar that drains as you tap quickly. If it runs out you cant shoot anymore. it could replenish itself by one unit every .5 second or something.
a more simple solution might be to limit the number of projectiles that can be on the screen to 4 or 5? Or possibly even limiting the game so that it will only respond to one tap at a time?
I see that Udemy has a section on this exact problem in their complete ios game course, but obviously I don't want to pay $499 for one little bit of code haha.
Any ideas? Thanks!
2 Answers
Stone Preston
42,016 Pointsmaybe use NSTimer to time 1 or 2 second intervals. when the player taps to shoot start the timer and set a flag (ie lockShooting = true) and when the time expires set the flag back to false. in your projectile method you would check to see if this flag was set and if lock shooting is true then dont fire, if its false fire away
jordan baker
49 PointsThanks Stone, That works pretty well!
Jordan