Currency

Overview

A Currency is a catalog item dedicated to the Wallet Management, which can help track the quantity of your in-game resources without the additional overhead of item instances, unlike Inventory Items.

You may want to deal with a collectible resource, but don't need to identify each instance of the resource. A Currency is the type of catalog item you need.

While in-game money is the most common use case, there're other currency-like resources belonging to a player, such as energy, score, number of lifes / moves,that can also be defined as Currency.

This type of item has 3 special fields:

• Initial allocation: the balance the player has when his/her profile is created.
• Maximum allocation: The maximum balance a player can have. 0 means no limit.
• Type: The type of the currency.

While in-game money is the most common use case, there're other currency-like resources belonging to a player, such as energy, score, number of lifes / moves,that can also be defined as Currency.

Currency Type

A Currency can be soft, or hard.

Also called "regular currency" or "free currency", a soft currency is a resource designed to be adequately accessible through normal gameplay, without having to make micro-transactions.

A hard currency is a resource that is exclusively, or near exclusively acquired by paying for it (real-money transactions). Also called "premium currency", it is much harder to acquire without making purchases, and thus is considered to be premium game content.

Editor Overview

Open the Currency window by going to Window → Game Foundation → Currency. The Currency window will let you configure Currencies.

The interface is similar to the other catalog items editor.

(1) In addition to the shared General section, you'll find the three special fields Initial allocation, Maximum allocation, and Type.