Inventory Tetris

Hey guys,

I know it's probably going to be very difficult to do, but as a nice little option for the inventory, how about adding the ability to rotate items. It would better allow you to fit things in your inventory and make it so you don't have to drop things to rearrange your stuff.

What do you think?

That, and maybe an auto-arrange.

But yes, more advanced tools with inventory management would be ideal.

I think an auto-arrange would be better. Rotating items around would just get annoying after a while.

inb4 someone comes in here with that stupid meme from Spongebob.

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RonX91 wrote:

I think an auto-arrange would be better. Rotating items around would just get annoying after a while.

I disagree, since I know there will be those moments where you want to stuff that one last item in your inventory before heading back to town, but you can only do this if you rotate an item so it frees up a 1x3 slot or something.

However, how they would work that feature into the UI without being intrusive would be quite the challenge.

Deus Ex had it done pretty well. Your holding the item in your hand, or "mouse cursor" in this case, and you would right click to turn it 90 degrees. Getting that in this game would take a little work but its certainly not unachievable.

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corrupt1on wrote:

Deus Ex had it done pretty well. Your holding the item in your hand, or "mouse cursor" in this case, and you would right click to turn it 90 degrees. Getting that in this game would take a little work but its certainly not unachievable.

This seems like it'd fit perfectly in this game.

I would love to see this implemented.

Rotating, no.

Auto-arrange button, yes. Much easier to code auto-arrange than rotating.

Yeah, your right. It would be very difficult to code. I think its my greedy side showing. That whole "Just one more blue to vendor" mindset. Just as a follow up, I have put a little bit more thought into why I would like to see it put in.

Because the size of the most items are 3 squares tall (not all of them are like this, but most are) and your inventory only being 5 squares tall, This means that you can only fit (on average) one item in a given column in your inventory. It would satisfy my greedy side just a little bit more if I could grab that last blue cloth armor (or whatever), be able to rotate it and fill every last square as best I can in that respect.

As an alternative, I suppose that an extra row of squares would achieve the same thing. With that implemented you could have (on average) two items in a given column and there wouldn't really need to be any rotating.

All in all, The item rotation would just make a player feel slightly less restricted in what they could pick up. At least... It would make me feel that way.

What do you guys think?

I often finding myself trying to pick up that last item from a boss, where if I could just rotate something and free up a few crucial squares, I'd be able to carry it.

Both auto arrange, and rotation are good ideas.

Maybe go with what corrupt1on said and add a row of blocks.