Basics of Game Design

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approach is to have items automatically be added to the inventory

as soon as player contacts them, and this approach is particularly

useful for games where resources have to be gathered to build ob-

jects. A third approach, used frequently in real-time strategy games,

is to have “gatherer” units be assigned to harvesting resources so the

player doesn’t have to do all the tedious work by alone.

e designer has to determine how items will be handled early

in production. If the player enters a space with ammunition, for ex-

ample, does all the ammo automatically go into the player’s inventory

with any excess being discarded? Or ...