Swift – Must call a designated initializer of the superclass SKSpriteNode error

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init(texture: SKTexture!, color: UIColor!, size: CGSize) is the only designated initializer in the SKSpriteNode class, the rest are all convenience initializers, so you can’t call super on them. Change your code to this:

class Creature: SKSpriteNode {
    var isAlive:Bool = false {
        didSet {
            self.hidden = !isAlive
        }
    }
    var livingNeighbours:Int = 0

    init() {
        // super.init(imageNamed:"bubble") You can't do this because you are not calling a designated initializer.
        let texture = SKTexture(imageNamed: "bubble")
        super.init(texture: texture, color: UIColor.clearColor(), size: texture.size())
        self.hidden = true
    }

    init(texture: SKTexture!) {
        //super.init(texture: texture) You can't do this because you are not calling a designated initializer.
        super.init(texture: texture, color: UIColor.clearColor(), size: texture.size())
    }

    init(texture: SKTexture!, color: UIColor!, size: CGSize) {
        super.init(texture: texture, color: color, size: size)
    }
}

Furthermore I would consolidate all of these into a single initializer.

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