Tabbed inventory (separating items by type)

[aVENGER]

In many games, inventory management becomes a major hassle once you acquire a large number of items. One way to alleviate this is to introduce separate tabs for specific item types (i.e. weapons, armor, potions, scrolls, etc.). This would make it a bit easier to search for specific items as long as you know which category they belong to. Of course, you would still have a general tab where items from all categories would be listed.

 

Examples of games which had a tabbed inventory: Risen, Gothic 1&3, KotOR 1&2, Divinity 1&2. Disclaimer: I'm not saying that inventory management was perfectly executed in the aforementioned games, just that it had this useful feature which might be worth looking into for Project Eternity. Lastly, here's a screenshot of Risen's character sheet. Notice the tabbed inventory under section 13.

[rjshae]

It might depend on how they display the inventory. With a grid system, tabs might make less sense. But they could always do a combination: a grid tab for inventory placement, then item-type tabs for displaying item properties.

[HangedMan]

It might depend on how they display the inventory. With a grid system, tabs might make less sense. But they could always do a combination: a grid tab for inventory placement, then item-type tabs for displaying item properties.

I like this idea. Especially the part about displaying item properties; it would be nice at a glance to see what the damage, for instance, of all my weapons are, or how much armor each piece of armor has, just at a glance; being able to compare things by just following the numbers down columns.

[Osvir]

These are some of my thoughts on inventory management.

 

Windows & Log

[Frenetic Pony]

A grid with tabs would be neat! Works well for web browsing among many other productive software interfaces, may as take what you can get, it would useful for finding items quickly anyway.

[Brother Pain]

Tabbed inventory is a nice idea, especially if we can set our own tabs. Perhaps what's needed is really just a system for searching your inventory (and stash) with options like item type, gold value, and/or free text search.

[Sensuki]

All for Inventory tabs.