Wednesday, March 28, 2012

An Easy Win on Inventory in Your MMO

Courtesy of Aion.

AN EASY WIN ON INVENTORY

Aion is a better game than a game without the following client-side feature. It's on the corner of the inventory, a magical little button that sorts your inventory.

You can see it in the icons even if you have no idea what these items are. The rock-looking stuff is all together. The potions are all together. The scrolls are all together. Sorting goes by level -- so much more sophisticated and smooth than games without arrangement. I had to actively try making this UI look messy for the comparison below.
Aion's cooler than your game if your MMORPG doesn't offer this.
We've mastered teleportation, high-speed galactic travel, the vanquishing of
ancient evils -- but EVERY SINGLE PLAYER BE DAMNED if they're not putting
vendor trash in one corner, buff-items in another, flavor gear sets next to that, profession ingredients on top...

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