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KaVir · 07-20-2010, 05:48 PM

Most muds have a sort of "floating bubble" inventory, a mysterious place where equipment goes when you pick it up, separate from the stuff you're wearing. I guess that's what you mean by the "blank void"?

In my old mud I replaced it with something much like you describe - pick something up and it would be moved direct to one of your hands, and from there you could place it into one of your (worn) containers, such as a backpack, or the pockets of your jeans or jacket (it was a modern setting). Typing "inventory" would then list the contents of each of your worn containers.

It was a more "realistic" approach, but I found it actually detracted from gameplay - it wasn't "fun", it was annoying, particularly when you needed to shift around a lot of equipment. So when I started developing my current mud I decided to go back to the floating bubble approach - it's a good enough abstraction anyway.

07-20-2010, 05:48 PM	#2
KaVir Legend Join Date: Apr 2002 Name: Richard Home MUD: God Wars II Posts: 2,052	Re: Preferred inventory type Most muds have a sort of "floating bubble" inventory, a mysterious place where equipment goes when you pick it up, separate from the stuff you're wearing. I guess that's what you mean by the "blank void"? In my old mud I replaced it with something much like you describe - pick something up and it would be moved direct to one of your hands, and from there you could place it into one of your (worn) containers, such as a backpack, or the pockets of your jeans or jacket (it was a modern setting). Typing "inventory" would then list the contents of each of your worn containers. It was a more "realistic" approach, but I found it actually detracted from gameplay - it wasn't "fun", it was annoying, particularly when you needed to shift around a lot of equipment. So when I started developing my current mud I decided to go back to the floating bubble approach - it's a good enough abstraction anyway.