GameplayKit
Building blocks for game logic: state machines, pathfinding, AI and randomness.
Introduced
2015
WWDC15
Kind
Framework
Runs on
Get it from
iOS
9.0+
iPadOS
9.0+
Mac Catalyst
13.0+
macOS
10.11+
tvOS
9.0+
visionOS
1.0+
watchOS
Overview
GameplayKit gives you the architecture and algorithms behind gameplay, independent of how you draw it. Use entities and components, state machines, agents with goals, pathfinding graphs and rule systems.
Its random sources and noise generators make procedural content and fair randomness easy, and it works with SpriteKit, SceneKit or your own engine.
Entities and components
Organize game objects from reusable parts.
State machines
Model game and character states cleanly.
Agents and pathfinding
Goals, behaviors and graph navigation.
Randomization
Fair random sources and procedural noise.
History
How it grew up.
2015
Introduced
Arrives with iOS 9 and OS X El Capitan.
2016
Procedural tools
Procedural noise, spatial partitioning and a Monte Carlo strategist.
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