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CHAPTER 7

ON ITEMS

In many types of games, the playeld is strewn with objects for the

player to nd, and these items perform many dierent game func-

tions, most of them positive. An item is dierent from an entity be-

cause it doesn’t perform actions independently of the player’s con-

trol. Sometimes the player has to act to acquire an item and at other

times the item is acquired as soon as the player comes in contact

with it. If players have to carry items with them in their travels, they

are likely to have an inventory where extras are stored. ese items

are dierent from the weapons and other artifacts the character is

wearing, and ...