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When 2D Pixels Made You Cry Over A Pixel Opera There’s a reason Final Fantasy 6 still gets brought up whenever people argue about the emotional power of sprites. It didn’t have voice acting or ...

And with iOS 7—and Mavericks—comes Sprite Kit, which contains everything developers need to write a 2D game from scratch, without having to worry about OpenGL.