• Introduction
• What is a point-and-click Game?
• What is Escoria?
• Requirements
• Basic Concepts in Godot
• Basics Concepts of Escoria
• About this book
• First Quick Game with Escoria
• About the example game
• Our project planning
• How to start your Escoria project
• Create your first scene
• Testing your Game
• Create Actions
• Escoria Fundamentals
• The Items
• Main Scene
• The Esc scripting language
• Inventory
• Verbs & Actions
• Speech Text
• Dialog interface
• Main Player
• What you need to know as an artist
• Artwork Import
• Scene composition
• Animations
• Music and sound effects
• Terrain: Light and Perspective
• What you need to know as a game designer
• Global states and saving
• Structure
• Booleans and conditions
• Instructions and commands
• Dialog trees
• Internationalization
• Audio speech files
• What you need to know as a programmer
• Game menus
• Implementing savegames
• Optimization
• How to publish
• Export your game

Inventory

The inventory is the UI that shows your current inventory items, and allows you to use them. It is located in the scene file ui/inventory.scn. The inventory will show items from a scene that contains all the items in your game. Items can be shown in multiple pages.

Building an inventory

The requirements of the inventory scene are as follows:

• A root node of type Control, with the script globals/inventory.gd attached to it
• A Control node named slots, with one or more children of type Position2D. These positions are the places where items will be shown as they appear on the inventory.
• Button nodes named arrow_prev and arrow_next. These are the buttons to go to the next page and previous page of items if multiple pages are necessary (if the number of items in the inventory is greater than the positions in the "slots" node). They can be hidden if not necessary.
• An instance of your inventory items scene, named items. This scene contains all the items of your game.

Here's ui/inventory.scn with a custom basket background:

The items element, set invisible by default, links back to the default inventory scene game/inventory_item.scn where we previously added all the pickable inventory items:

game/inventory_items.scn needs to be customized to add all the items of your game as children of a root Node2D node. The items must be fully functional Items, configured with their properties, sprite, script file, etc. For this type of item, usually a TextureButton is used with the globals/item.gd script attached to it, although any other type of item can be used. You can read The Items chapter for details.

For inventory items specifically, remember to tick the Use Combine property.

The inventory scene is a child of hud.scn which is a child of game.scn. So it should be made available automatically in your game once game.scn in imported to your main scene. Refer to our Create your scene chapter to see how to do it.

Using the inventory

Now that the inventory is ready as a UI element visible to the user, it will be necessary to define how to use it. This will be done with an Esc script description. Generally, adding an element to the inventory will be made from a pick_up action. During this action we generally have to :

• enable the corresponding inventory item
• make the object invisible in the main scene
• optionally, play a "pick up" animation for our main character, say a line of dialog, etc.

The script could look like the example we use in our intro game:

:pick_up
> [!picked_item]
	set_global i/inv_good_bamboo true
	set_active good_bamboo false

Note that, since we add items to the inventory, we can use the global flag corresponding to the item to check if the user has it:

> [i/inv_good_bamboo]
	# user has the good bamboo

Generally, using an inventory item will be processed by a :use action:

:use inv_good_bamboo

and you will probably need to unset all the necessary globals, conversely to the pick up action.