Where to Go from Here?
Congratulations, you have delved into the depths of sine, cosine and tangent. You have witnessed them in action inside of a game with applicable examples. I hope you've seen how handy trigonometry really is for games!
You can download the final version of the project using the Download Materials button at the top or bottom of this tutorial.
Note that we didn’t talk much about arcsine and arccosine. They are much less useful in practice than arctangent, although a common use for arccosine is to find the angle between two arbitrary vectors — for example, to model the reflection of a light beam in a mirror or to calculate how bright an object should be depending on its angle to a light source.
If you fancy using your new-found skills for more game development, but don't know where to start, then why not try out our book 2D Apple Games by Tutorials. It will certainly kick start your development!
Drop by the forums to share your successes and agonies with trig. And use your new powers wisely!
Credits: The graphics for this game are based on a free sprite set by Kenney Vleugels. The sound effects are based on samples from freesound.org.
