April 2015 - Page 2 of 2 - cs193p assignment solutions et al

Task #1

Create a straightforward Breakout game using Dynamic Animator. See the image in the Screen Shots section below to get a general idea of the game, but your UI should not look exactly like the Screen Shot. Creativity is encouraged and will be rewarded.

Hint #1

This assignment is intentionally vague about the feature set of your game to make room for you to show us some creativity. …

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NSNotification

Notifications provide a way to react to asynchronous events. e.g.:

NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter()

func addObserverForName(String, // name of the "radio station"
    object: AnyObject?, // broadcaster (or nil for "anyone")
    queue: NSOperationQueue?) // queue to execute the closure on 
    { (notification: NSNotification) -> Void in
        let info: [NSObject:AnyObject]? = notification.userInfo // notification-specific information
}

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