Apple's new Sprite Kit development framework aims to make it easier to create 2D arcade style games for both iOS 7 mobile devices and the Mac desktop, and hints at a future strategy for games on ...

SpriteKit came along after SceneKit (released with iOS 7), giving developers all the tools they needed to build 2D animated, sprite-based games from scratch without requiring the OpenGL graphics API.

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.