00:12Hello everyone, this is Chris Keenan from Exile Entertainment.
00:15While much of the team's been hard at work making sure all areas of the game are blocked in and
00:19playable,
00:20we've in unison been working on the inventory screen. We're going to show that off today.
00:24It's a slightly polished UI, really want to show off the feel and functionality,
00:28but we don't consider it final art right now. As usual, we do want to hear all of your feedback,
00:33both good and bad.
00:35Before we dive too deep into the details, I'll give you a bit of background.
00:38First and foremost, we were going for functionality.
00:41We have a good amount of collection within Wasteland, and we wanted to make sure that with a party of
00:45up to seven characters under your control,
00:47that you'd be able to sort and access those items easily.
00:50One of the main things that we were discussing was whether we go with a grid inventory or if it's
00:54more list-based.
00:55Originally, we were thinking grid, but as we continued through development, we found that it was going to be a
00:59little bit limiting for us.
01:01We have the ability to add columns right now with a list. You can sort by those columns.
01:05So we actually went with a bit of a hybrid approach.
01:08We do have grid icons that you'll see, but it's also list-based, and we have deeper details when you
01:13click on them.
01:14So as I collect new items, you tend to want to see what those items are and how they're represented
01:19in the world.
01:20So you can click on them and see much more detailed images in the Polaroids above.
01:24The weapon photo that you see in the upper right-hand corner actually came from fan feedback that we got
01:29from our first demo.
01:30A lot of people looked at the green weapon LCD images on our HUD and said that they wanted more
01:34detail on that.
01:35So we decided to put in these pictures that are going to show off all major weapons and armor in
01:39the game.
01:39You'll notice what we went with an icon-based approach for stats.
01:43We didn't want to clutter up those pictures with lots of unnecessary text,
01:47so in the future we're going to have mouse-overs where you'll be able to see all of the details
01:51for each one of those weapons or armor pieces.
01:54The first section you see in the backpack is the Favorites tab.
01:57Each of the items has a star next to it, and you can click that star to access that as
02:01a favorite for any one of your characters.
02:03What that also does is allow you to have smarter looting.
02:06When you loot items as a party, those items will be distributed to the party member who has set those
02:11as a favorite.
02:12Thanks for watching.
02:13And hey, at least this video wasn't 17 minutes long.
