Add Game Center Capability Using Xcode

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To enable Game Center in Hog Dice, you need to add the Game Center capability to the Xcode project and target.

Open the hog project in Xcode.

Using the Starter Project

The starter project is located in the projects/begin folder included with the code resources for this chapter.

There’s also an ending project for this chapter that includes all of the code and resources you’ll be adding here. The end project is located in the projects/end folder included with the code resources for this chapter.

In the Project Navigator, select the hog project file, and in the Project Editor, select the hog target. Now, switch to the Signing & Capabilities tab and you’ll see something like the image shown.

As you learned in Chapter 1, ​Creating Scenes with Sprites and Nodes​, the Bundle Identifier must be unique when publishing a project to the App Store. Because the Bundle ID, net.justwritecode.hogdice, already exists on my Apple developer account, be sure to change the Bundle ID to something…