Believe it or not, nowadays the games hosted on the App Store generate approximately the 75% of market profits. We all know the top sellers Clash of Clans o Angry Birds, and even la new fever, Pokémon Go, which is leaving a lot of money (about $ 3.000.000 a day in integrated purchases) to its creative company (Niantic Labs, subsidiary of Google) and Apple itself.
For this comes Xcode Game, A tool that enhances the ease of development and multiplies the possibilities of creating games with incredible quality. Xcode Game, present in Xcode 8 and still in beta phase, it will allow you to work on more powerful games and applications with greater resources.
It was back in iOS 7, with the arrival of Spritekit, when Apple started giving it importance that it deserved in terms of market, the development of video games for iPhone and iPads. Said development framework exclusively oriented towards 2D games evolved year after year and today it is one of the most powerful and versatile options for developing games for mobile devices.
Thanks to tools like Spritekit, Xcode It is today much superior to other engines in the sector such as Unity o Unreal. In fact, since Cupertino, the development of videogames is increasingly present, knowing the Economic importance you have in your market. So much so that in the past WWDC 2016 No less than 12 sessions were held exclusively focused on content creation tools of this type (among them, much was said about the improvements made in Metal).
In addition, Apple now goes further by allowing us to manage and develop with Spritekit universally, that is, we can develop with the same framework for all the company's devices: iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS.
Really, an incentive for those undecided who are considering learning to program. Apple keeps making it easier. Who doesn't want to have their own application on the App Store? Cheer up.