12 amazing small games made it into the iOS AppStore! 24 students developed them during the Seminar Games Development with iOS (WS14/15) using Swift and SpriteKit:

	CircleFever tests your reflexes. Catch the symbols with corresponding forms by rotating up and down your game circles! (by Christoph Erl and Johann Rottenfußer)		Help Fluffy ducklings through a world full of abysses. Tap on the ducklings to jump and fly, and save as many as possible! (by Monika Wintergerst and Alexander Richter)
	Food Chain: Control a mouse and navigate it through a maze to reach the tasty cheese. But be aware of cats - they are hungry, too! (by Timo Lamprecht and Jana Pejic)		Galactic Defense: Defend your galaxy with your spaceship. B fast and cautious because the enemies will try to shoot in your direction! (by Marius Schulz and Ledian Xhani)
	Glitch 'em up: Board the cockpit and dodge asteroids! Glitches bend spacetime. Are you able to use them for your advantage?. (by Michael Wang and Fabian Manhardt)		Keep Up the ball on platforms and reach as many platforms you can. Get the highscore and challenge your friends via GameCenter! (by Florian Ruppert and Wenbo Huang)
	Mobius 3D is inspired by a moebius strip. It's orientation-less and endless. You lose your mind, but you collect as many coins as possible! (by Maximilian Flis and Fei Pan)		In Monster Roly you help Roly to get to his favorite food - donuts. Tilt your device to roll Roly. Be careful: the world is a dangerous place! (by Ute Schiehlen and Stefan Cimander)
	Saws is a 2D game in which you move a bird around to find the lost baby bird. Be careful not to touch the saws! (by Jan Göbel and Parisa Elahidoost)		Shifuban: You're ship was hit by canon causing holes and water gushing. Move the barrels onto the holes and rescue the ship! (by Anja Kastenmayer and Henning Helmbrecht)
	In Tiny Wizard you control a wizard to protect the Tree of Life. Several enemies like orcs and thieves attack not only the tree but also our tiny hero! (by Daniel Peter and Alba Xhani)		Wormcraft is a two player 3D game. Destroy the enemy team with a grenade or bazooka by demolishing the surrounding environment! (by Shivam Agrawal and Lukas Kick)

If you like one of the games, please give it a nice rating share it with your friends :-)

We published the peer-to-peer real-time framework Reto on Github, that Julian Asamer developed during his Master's Thesis under the supervision of Stephan Krusche. Reto is available in Swift on iOS and OS X (sReto) and in Java 8 (jReto) for Windows, OS X and Unix. Both implementations are compatible with each other regarding the network protocol and the exposed API. Reto allows data exchange between multiple peers in WiFi networks, over Bluetooth or over the Internet using a dedicated, but simple WebSocket server. Reto supports discovery of and communication with peers that cannot be reached directly by using other peers to forward data. The framework offers an easy-to-use, high-level, object-oriented API and can be integrated without much effort into existing applications. Try out one of the example applications on Github and participate in the further development by creating issues and pull requests! Active contributors can also get write access to the repositories. 

Apple mentioned us as one of the first universities worldwide to teach Swift. Currently over 100 students in 11 teams are taking part in the iOS Praktikum and have just begun to create their first own Swift Apps to solve real problems of our industry partners. If you want to learn more about this years iOS Praktikum see www1.in.tum.de/ios. Watch the results from this summer on http://www1.in.tum.de/ios14. If you eagerly want to learn more about Swift: We plan to run another course in the summer term, stay tuned!

We offer the Seminar Games Development with iOS again as a block course in September between Monday, 9 September 2014 and Friday, 19 September 2014. Interested students can apply for it by filling out the application form on the course page.

In the first week of the seminar we introduce Apple's new programming language Swift, Xcode 6 and iOS 8. Students also learn how to develop games using Apple's powerful iOS frameworks like SpriteKit and SceneKit. In the second week students develop their first game for iOS (supported by experienced supervisors and tutors), demonstrate and publish it into the iOS App Store.

If you have questions, please contact Stephan Krusche.