Inventory

[mattridgway]

Requests to engine can:

• add item to inventory
• disallow the same instance of an item to be added twice
• return a list of items in the inventory from through perspective

Later:

• limit the size of the inventory (size, weight, count)
• use items in the inventory
• remove item from inventory
• check when adding an item that it was visible/accessible to the actor
• items can perish/be consumed/damaged through use/time
• update perspective so item is no longer visible when picked up (and inverse when dropped)
• ensure its possible to add the item to the inventory (its within perspective and nothing in the way)

[herecydev]

Might be worth thinking about consumable/durable/permanent and some sort of transformed items.

Fruit is consumable Torch is durable Axe is permanent Bottle of water transforms into empty bottle when consumed

Something like that

[mattridgway]

some items (like food) might need to be perishable too??

[herecydev]

Yep, which I guess makes it durable? Maybe chocolate bar is a better example, but you get where I'm going.

[smudge202]

However, inventory shouldn't be responsible for any of the transforms listed above. The items/actors should handle this themselves? A bottle of water for example would subscribe for a consume event of itself and update accordingly?

[herecydev]

I'm not sure if hydration should tell of the transform, If anything that falls under inventory (to me at least)

[mattridgway]

updated initial comment to reflect more recent discussions

[smudge202]

Given the OP edits, bear in mind we still haven't created any "Perspectives". We're aware of them being a structure we would like, but not where they belong and how they look.

[mattridgway]

Are we still considering that all items in the world should be actors?

[smudge202]

They should probably all be something, yes. Actors? Maybe. Whatever makes sense.