Terry Torres OhTerryTorres

Making Levels in a SpriteKit game from JSON

I’m making a SpriteKit game for a wine shop in Boston’s North End. We want it to

have an old-school, chunky, arcadey hack-and-slash feel
properly convey that old-school feel using effortless touch controls
have its levels built (and potentially updated after launch) using an external data file

I want to talk about how I plan on implementing that last one: level data from an external file.

	set minutesBeforeFadeOutBeginsPrompt to display dialog "Minutes before fade out begins?" default answer "1" with icon note buttons {"Cancel", "Continue"} default button "Continue"
	set fadeOutIntervalPrompt to display dialog "Fade out interval? (in seconds)" default answer "10" with icon note buttons {"Cancel", "Continue"} default button "Continue"

	set minutesBeforeFadeOutBegins to (text returned of minutesBeforeFadeOutBeginsPrompt) as number
	set fadeOutInterval to (text returned of fadeOutIntervalPrompt) as number

	set fadeOutStartCountdown to minutesBeforeFadeOutBegins * 60
	set fadeOutStartProgress to 0

	set progress total steps to fadeOutStartCountdown

	#!/bin/bash

	# Based on the Windows version by mrsilver76
	# https://github.com/mrsilver76/itunes_playlist_exporter

	# ASSUMPTIONS
	# 1. You have a Plex server.
	# 2. You have exported your playlists to a folder of .m3u files.
	# 3. You can update configuration values below.