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Adding Inventory

Sorry for the delay in today’s post. We had a bad storm come in so the internet was down most of the day. Yesterday I got world collision detection done which you can view a short tech demo below.

Today I will be working on adding inventory which will be slot based. I figured I would have it so that users automatically pick up loot if they walk over it. That way people don’t have to fiddle around with other buttons just to pick up loot. I will also try to add a “console” type window to the game. The console will basically relay messages/events to the person like when they pick up loot or maybe even kill an NPC. For today’s polls I have two important things I want to ask you guys. The first is about your attacking style. Would you rather have it so that you a 3 spot skill bar with the first spot being the attack your fire button (middle button by the arrow keys) uses and then the other two skill bar spots are activated by pressing 1 and 3 on your phone OR would you rather have it so that you get a little “pop-up” window which asks you what attack you want to use then you scroll threw it to select which attack? The next question is about the visual look of the main character. In short my two main options for how the character visually looks 1) have it so the character does not have any moving animations but when you equip armor it shows or 2) Have the character with very smooth moving animations but will not show armor too much (might show armor if you get like a complete set or something). I wish I could do both but I do not have the resources for doing either one well plus it will just push the requirements of the phone specs even further.

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