Inventories

The space containing game elements carried by diegetic characters.

For games where players control characters that can carry

This pattern is a still a stub.

Examples

Roleplaying Games grew out of Miniature Games by focusing on individual characters, including their equipment. This lead many such games, e.g. Dungeons and Dragons, GURPS, and Mutant, to have Inventories and rules for how much the players' characters could carry (although these were often ignored).

This was carried on both in text-based computer games (e.g. Kingdoms and the Zork series)

Dragon Age series Fallout series

Not all lists of carried

Minecraft

The storage areas available to players in FarmVille and Zombie Lane can be seen as Inventories also.

[[Dragon Age II]

Using the pattern

Game Items

Limited Resources

Characters Torchlight Game Worlds Free Gift Inventories Resource Caps Props Transferable Items

Sockets have similarities with Inventories, and may in some cases be a feasible alternative to Inventories. Dragon Age II does a combination of Inventories and Sockets by having a common Inventory for the Player Character and the Companions but Sockets for the Game Items actually equipped by them.

Interface Aspects

Inventories are often instantiated as Secondary Interface Screens, e.g. in NetHack, the Fallout or Dragon Age series. Dragon Age II combines this with functionality for exchanging Transferable Items while Minecraft provides support for Crafting in its Inventory.

However, Character Sheets

Game Pauses

Diegetic Consistency

Consequences

Diegetic Consistency

Relations

Can Be Instantiated By

Character Sheets, Secondary Interface Screens

Can Be Modulated By

Game Pauses

Potentially Conflicting With

Diegetic Consistency

History

New pattern created in this wiki.

References

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