Creating a Menu in SpriteKit

Cocos2d has a easy to use CCMenu object to which you add CCMenuItems.  In SpriteKit however, you are back to UIKit objects.  This doesn’t not mean its more complicated, its just different :-).  You will need to create a UIControl such as a button or you can use SpriteKit’s SKNode to create the visual object onscreen:

SKLabelNode*  someNode = [SKLabelNode labelNodeWithFontNamed:@”Chalkduster”];
[someNode setText:@”Play Game”];
[someNode setPosition:CGPointMake(CGRectGetMidX(self.frame)+5,CGRectGetMidY(self.frame)-40)];
[self addChild: someNode];

Now you simply connect the object action to some event like so:

for (UITouch *touch in touches) {
CGPoint location = [touch locationInNode:self];

if ([someNode containsPoint:location]) {
SKTransition* present = [SKTransition revealWithDirection:SKTransitionDirectionDown duration:1];
GameScene* gameScene = [[GameScene alloc] initWithSize:CGSizeMake(1024, 768)];
[self.scene.view presentScene: someNode transition:present];

}
}

Voila!  You are DONE!