Chapter 8. Creating an Inventory System

In the virtual world, it is common that avatars have their own inventory bag. Users keep and manage their items inside the bag. They collect items for different purposes. They can equip their avatars with items, modify the avatar's appearances with items, they can participate in the virtual world economy through item trading, or they can show off rare items by archiving difficult challenges.

Items and the pricing of the items create an economy system inside the virtual world. We will discuss the influence of the virtual world economy and some methods to prevent the poor impact from imbalance of the economy.

In this chapter, we will learn how to make an item inventory system for an avatar. We will also implement ...

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