Game Foundation Tutorials

Creating a Currency

You may want to deal with a collectible resource, but don't need to identify each instance of the resource. The most obvious example of this kind of resource is in-game virtual currency. You don't need to give an identity to each coin in your wallet, and you'd need to collect thousands, millions of them.

A Currency is the type of catalog item you need. It can help track the quantity of such virtual resources without the additional overhead of item instances, unlike inventory.

Now let's look at how we can create such a concept very easily using Game Foundation.

Open the Currency Window

In order to create a Currency, you need to open the Currency Window. Open the Currency Window by selecting Window → Game Foundation → Currency.
You will see the following window.

As you can see, the layout is similar to the Inventory window.

Create a new currency

Similar to the Item Definition tutorial, clicking on the + button at the bottom of the left section shows the id field, the display name field and the Create button in the section on the right.

After creation, the editor shows some currency specific fields:

• Initial allocation is the amount of this currency a new player can have.
• Maximum allocation is the limit of this currency the player can possess. 0 means no limit.
• The type of this currency can be soft, or hard. This property doesn't change the way the currency is handled by Game Foundation, but it helps you organize your data.

Apart from those specific fields, a currency has the same features as an inventory item definition.

With this currency created, we now can switch back to the code with the next tutorial.

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